Healthy Food Recipes - Ridge Gourd ( Peerkangai ) Idli Sambar
Posted on: 08/Dec/2014 6:26:15 PM
Ingredients:
- Toor Dhal – 100 gram
- Onion – 3 nos
- Tomato – 3 nos
- Garlic- 10 nos
- Ridge Gourd – 250 grams
- Curry Leaves – 1 tbsp
- Oil – 3 spoons
- Cumin Seeds and Mustard Seeds – ½ spoon each
- Salt – To taste
- Turmeric Powder – ½ Spoon
- Sambar Powder – ½ 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.
- Finely chop onion and cut the ridge gourd into small even sized pieces.
- Heat the kadai and add 3 spoons of oil. Add curry leaves, Garlic, chopped onion, tomato one and one and sauté for about 2 minutes till tomato shrinks and raw smell leaves. Then add Ridge gourd pieces.
- Allow it to boil for 3 minutes and add water, turmeric powder, sambar powder and add salt to taste.
- Finely smash the boiled toor dal using the ladle, so that it must be watery.
- Then add it to it and allow it to pressure cook till one or two whistle.
- Then heat the pan and add oil to it. Then put mustard seed, cumin seed and asafoetida for tempering and add it to the sambar.
- Finally add the finely chopped coriander leaves for garnishing and serve hot.
- This tasty sambar will suit best for idli, dosai and chapatti.
Note:
- It is always advisable to add the turmeric powder along with the toor dal before boiling.
- It is also well known to add 1 spoon of castor oil while pressure cook the toor dal.
- Castor oil is generally meant for soothing the body heat.
- Also, castor oil has the potency to augment the body’s immune system.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
