Healthy Food Recipes - Lady’s Finger Dal Sambar
Posted on: 23/Mar/2015 10:52:28 AM
Ingredients:
- Toor Dal – 1 cup
- Lady Finger – 100 grams
- Small Onion – 100 grams
- Tomato – 2 nos
- Fenugreek – 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
- Cumin seeds – ¼ tsp
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp
- Sambar Powder – 1 ½ tbsp
- Tamarind – a small lemon sized ball
- Cooking Oil – 3 tbsp
- Salt – as needed
- Curry leaves – a few
- Coriander leaves – a little
Method of Preparation:
- Wash toor dal thoroughly and soak it in water for about half an hour.
- Pressure cook the soaked toor dal with ¼ tsp of Turmeric powder for about 3 whistles, until it becomes mushy.
- Wash lady finger thoroughly in running water and wipe it with a cotton cloth.
- Then cut into small sized pieces as you wish.
- Then finely chop onion and tomato and keep it aside.
- Heat a pan with a spoon of oil and add the pieces of lady finger. Saute it well for a minute.
- Transfer it in a separate plate.
- Then heat the same pan with 2 spoons of oil and add fenugreek. Roast it till fenugreek becomes slightly golden, add chopped onion and saute well.
- Add the sautéed lady finger to it and stir well.
- Then add the chopped tomato and saute well until the tomato shrinks and the raw smell leaves.
- Saute it for a minute and add salt and sambar powder and mix well.
- Add required quantity of water and allow the contents to boil well for about 5 minutes.
- Now add the cooked and smashed toor dal to it.
- At the time when sambar get boiled well, add the tamarind extract and keep the stove in low flame for 2 minutes and then switch off the flame.
- Heat a small pan with a spoon of oil, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds for tempering and drop it on top of the sambar.
- Transfer it to the serving bowl and add coriander leaves for garnishing.
- Hot Lady’s Finger Dal Sambar is ready to serve with rice!
Tips:
- Whenever you prepare Lady’s Finger sambar, it is good to saute the chopped Lady’s finger in a spoon of oil before adding it to the dal. Then only vegetables will not be stickier and not be cracked at all.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
