Watch this video to learn how to make the delicious Sambhar
SAMBHAR
Ingredients
½ cup split pigeon peas (tuvar dal/arhar dal), soaked
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
4 tablespoons oil
1 lemon sized ball tamarind
½ teaspoon mustard seeds
4 whole dry red chillies, broken
½ teaspoon fenugreek seeds (methi dana)(optional)
¼ teaspoon asafoetida
4 green chillies, slit
10-12 curry leaves
2 drumsticks, 2½ inch pieces
1½ teaspoons sambhar powder
Salt to taste
Method
1. Pressure-cook the dal in two and half cups of water with turmeric powder and one teaspoon oil for three whistles. Open lid once the pressure has reduced. Mash the cooked dal lightly with a wooden spoon.
2. Soak tamarind in one-cup warm water, extract pulp and set aside.
3. Heat the remaining oil in a thick-bottomed pan. Add mustard seeds. When they splutter add dry red chillies, fenugreek seeds and asafoetida.
4. Stir and add green chillies, curry leaves and drumsticks and cook for one minute on medium heat stirring briefly.
5. Add sambhar powder, salt and one cup water.
6. Reduce heat and simmer for six to eight minutes or till drumsticks are cooked. Add tamarind pulp, boiled dal and simmer for two to three minutes.
7. Serve hot with steamed rice.
Chefâ??s Tip: You can use different vegetables like white radish, ladyfingers, pumpkin, brinjal, sambhar onion, etc., either individually or in any combination. In south of India, each family has their own style of making sambhar.
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