Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Idli Sambar Recipe

Ingredients

Toor Dal - 1 cup
Green Gram less than 1/4 cup
Tomato - 2 chopped
Small Onions/Shallots - - cut into half
Ginger 1 chopped
Green chilli
Turmeric - 1/2 spoon
Chilli Powder 1/4 spoon
Sambar powder
Salt

Seasoning
Cumin Seeds (Jeera) = 1spoon
Asafoetida
Mustard
Curry leaves
Oil

Preparation
Soak the toor dal & green gram in hot water for half an hour.
In a cooker, add onions, tomato, green chillies, ginger, the dal, add little water, salt, chilli powder, sambar powder, turmeric powder. Pressure cook well upto 5 whistles.

When done. In a kadai, take oil, when its hot, add mustard seeds, when it spurts, add cumin seeds, asafotida & curry leaves.
Sambar is done. Its awesome with idli, dosa, vada. Yummy

4 comments:

  1. No fenugreek (methi) seeds in the seasoning?

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  2. Good...But i need to know how to make Sambar powder in home.

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  3. I'l post how to make sambar podi soon....

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  4. Idly sambar turned out very well! I never would have thought it possible to make sambar without tamarind!

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