Sunday, September 16, 2012

Sambar


Ingredients
1) Toor Dal - 50 gms
2) Onion - 1
3) Green Chillies - 3
4) Drum Sticks - 1
5) Brinjol - 1
6) Ladies finger - 1
7) Tomato - 1
8) Tamarind - 10 gms
9) Sambar Powder - 1 spoon
10) Channa dal - 3 gms
11) Udit dal - 2 gms
12) Black Mustard seeds - 2 gms
13) curry leaves
14) Salt - 2 spoons
15) Red Chillie - 1
16) Jeera seeds - 2 gms
17) Garlic - 3 pieces
18) Red Chillie powder - 1/4 spoon
19) Red chillie - 1

Procedure
1. Boil the toor dal in pressure cooker(with water twice the quantity of Dal).
2. Take the tamarind in a bowl and soak it in water.
3. Cut the onion vertically, drumstick into 3 inch long pieces. Take them in a vessel, add water to it and boil.
4. Oncce the onions are turned white add the tamarind water to it. Boil for 5 mins
5. Chop the vegetables brinjol, ladies finger, tomato and add them to the boiling tamarind water.
6. Cut the green chillies, garlic and add them in the tamarind water.
7. Add curry leaves and salt to it. and boil for 5 mins.
8. Add the boiled dal(prepared in step 1) and heat until bubbles appear in the vessel.
9. Add red chilli powder and stir the ingredients well.
10. Add Sambar powder and stir well and heat it for 2 mins and put off the flame.
12. Take a pan with 1 spoon of oil and heat it.
13. Add musard seeds, Channa dal, udit dal, jeera and red chillie andheat it until the dal turns brown.
14. Mix the tadka(prepare in step 13) to the mixture(prepared in step 10) and mix it thouroughly.
15. Sambar is ready and serve it hot.
                              

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