Sambar experts may wonder what is not so easy about sambar! This Sambar is quicker and tasty too. The trick lies in using the pressure cooker to cook the dal and the vegetables. For this you would need the tougher looking vegetables or the ones which needs more cooking. My MIL swears that sambar cooked thus tastes different. She uses the pressure cooker only to cook the dal. But I find no difference in the taste so when she was here in Kuwait I refrained from doing it my way :). MIL is no lover of sambar but I have to admit that she is an expert. Anyway let me stop rambling and finish this task.
The following were my choice of vegetable this time.
The green chilly may give some of you a heart burn so choose accordingly but since this small vegetable is a power house of Vitamin C don't avoid it. Hence sambar is actually a very healthy soup and is enough to eat a plate full of rice.We had it with fried fish.
Easy Sambar
Ingredients
1. Choice of vegetables cubed - 2 cups
2. Green chillies - as per your taste (but a minimum of 4)
3. Masoor Dal - 1/2 Cup
4. Channa Dal - 2 Tbspn
Feel free to add more kinds of dal while reducing the masoor dal. It will only add to the taste.
5. Coriander Powder - 3 Tbspn
6. Chilly Powder - 1 Tbspn
5. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tspn
6. Fenugreek Powder - 1/2 Tspn
7. Asofetida Powder - 1/4 Tspn
8. A small piece of tamarind if the tomato does is not sour enough
9. Coriander leaves - a bunch
10. Small onions - 3 Nos.
11. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tspn
12. Curry leaves - a few
Method
Pour 3 cups of water and put the chopped vegetables along with the turmeric powder and salt. One can add a teaspoon of oil so that it does not boil over. Wait for 3-4 whistles and let it cool. Microwave the rest of the powders for 40 seconds to let the flavours out.
Once the pressure cooker has cooled down and it is safe to open, drop the powders and let it boil for a few minutes. Now add a sprig of chopped coriander leaves.
Heat oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. Wait for it to splutter. Add the chopped onion and curry leaves. Brown it and pour it over the sambar.
Voila.. your sambar is ready!
The following were my choice of vegetable this time.
The green chilly may give some of you a heart burn so choose accordingly but since this small vegetable is a power house of Vitamin C don't avoid it. Hence sambar is actually a very healthy soup and is enough to eat a plate full of rice.We had it with fried fish.
Chilli peppers have amazingly high levels of vitamins andminerals.
Just 100 g provides (in % of Recommended daily allowance)
240% of vitamin-C (Ascorbic acid),
39% of vitamin B-6 (Pyridoxine),
32% of vitamin A,
13% of iron,
14% of copper,
7% of potassium, but no cholesterol.
Easy Sambar
Ingredients
1. Choice of vegetables cubed - 2 cups
2. Green chillies - as per your taste (but a minimum of 4)
3. Masoor Dal - 1/2 Cup
4. Channa Dal - 2 Tbspn
Feel free to add more kinds of dal while reducing the masoor dal. It will only add to the taste.
5. Coriander Powder - 3 Tbspn
6. Chilly Powder - 1 Tbspn
5. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tspn
6. Fenugreek Powder - 1/2 Tspn
7. Asofetida Powder - 1/4 Tspn
8. A small piece of tamarind if the tomato does is not sour enough
9. Coriander leaves - a bunch
10. Small onions - 3 Nos.
11. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tspn
12. Curry leaves - a few
Method
Pour 3 cups of water and put the chopped vegetables along with the turmeric powder and salt. One can add a teaspoon of oil so that it does not boil over. Wait for 3-4 whistles and let it cool. Microwave the rest of the powders for 40 seconds to let the flavours out.
Once the pressure cooker has cooled down and it is safe to open, drop the powders and let it boil for a few minutes. Now add a sprig of chopped coriander leaves.
Heat oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. Wait for it to splutter. Add the chopped onion and curry leaves. Brown it and pour it over the sambar.
Voila.. your sambar is ready!
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