Healthy Food Recipes - Fresh Sundakkai Sambar (Turkey Berry Sambar)
Posted on: 13/Dec/2014 11:08:20 AM
Ingredients:
- Sundakkai (Turkey berry) - 1 cup (100 grams)
- Toor dhal – 100 grams
- Onion - 2 nos
- Tomato - 2 nos
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1 spoon
- Sambar Powder – 1 spoon
- Salt – To taste
- Tamarind – a small lemon size
- Oil – 4 spoon
How to prepare this?
- Pressure cook the dal with turmeric powder and water for 2 whistles and mash it.
- Wash the turkey berry thoroughly. Either chop the sundakkai into half or put the sundakkai in a plastic bag close it and give a crush a little with a ladle. Keep the chopped sundakkai in a bowl of water, else its colour will turn black.
- Finely chop both the onion and tomatoes.
- Heat 3 spoons of oil in a kadai, add the curry leaves, chopped onion and tomato and sauté well till tomato mashed.
- Add the crushed sundakkai, salt, sambar powder and sauté for 2mins.
- Add required quantity of water and pressure cook for 1 whistle.
- If needed, you can mash the turkey berry in the cooker using a ladle.
- Now add the cooked dal to it.
- Let it boil for some time and now add the tamarind juice to it.
- Remove the lid and boil till the raw tamarind smell vanished.
- Heat oil in the pan and add cumin seeds, mustard seeds for tempering and add it to the sambar.
- Now add the chopped coriander leaves for garnishing and and convert to serving bowl.
- This sundakkai sambar tastes great with the steam rice! Enjoy its tangy taste!
Note:
- Sundakkai is highly rich source of protein, calcium and iron.
- If it is not possible for you to get the fresh sundakkai, instead you can get the sundakkai vadam from the super markets.
- People who are in the plan of shedding off their body weight, they can very well include sundakkai in their daily diet.
- Sundakkai has the potent to destroy worms and good to treat stomach related problems.
- As Sundakkai is a medicinal veggie, continuous intake of sundakkai is good to maintain a healthy and strong fit body.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
