Healthy Food Recipes - Idli Sambar Hotel Style / Tiffin Sambar
Posted on: 25/Nov/2014 12:43:53 PM
Ingredients:
- Toor Dal – 100 gram
- Small Onion – 200 grams
- Tomato – 3 nos
- Sambar Powder – 1 spoon
- Tamarind pulp – a small lemon size
- Jaggery – as needed
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ spoon
- Salt – to taste
- Ghee - 1 spoon
- Oil – 3 spoon
- Coconut – small piece
- Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp for garnishing
To Roast and Grind:
- Channa Dal - 1 tbsp
- Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
- Red chillies – 2
- Pepper – 1/2 spoon
- Cumin Seeds – 1/2 spoon
- Fenugreek - 1/4 spoon
- Asafoetida – a pinch
Method:
- Pressure cook the Toor Dal with enough water for 4-5 whistles until it becomes mushy. Smash it again with a ladle and set aside.
- In a kadai, add a spoon of ghee and dry roast the ingredients under `to roast and grind` one by one and finally add a small piece of coconut to it. Grind it to a semi fine powder and set aside.
- Again, add oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds for tempering.
- Then add the chopped onion, tomatoes and sauté for about 2 minutes till tomato shrinks and raw smell leaves.
- Add water at this stage and add turmeric powder, sambar powder and salt and allow it to boil for some time. (Use sambar powder a small quantity, as we have pepper and red chillies in the grinded paste)
- Then transfer this to the cooked dal and allow it to boil for 5 more minutes.
- Soak tamarind in warm water, discard the seeds and add this to sambar,
- Once the raw tamarind smell is set aside, add the grinded powder. Mix it well without any crumbs. Allow it to boil for 2 minutes
- Then add 1 or 2 spoons of grated jaggery. Allow the sambar to boil and thicken. Once it is boiled and reaches the desired consistency, add coriander leaves.
- This Idli Sambar Hotel Style / Tiffin Sambar is perfect with idlis and dosas. Serve hot with idlis drizzled with ghee!!
- You can also add best combo of veggies like brinjals, potato and carrots, as it enhances the nutritional value of the sambar.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
