Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade South Indian Vegetable Sambar

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A typical south Indian sambar recipe calls for lot of vegetables like pumpkin, bottle gourd, drumstick, eggplant, cucumbers, lady finger, sweet potatoes, onions and tomatoes. The choice of vegetables is based on a personal liking and are optional. Each vegetable lends a different flavour and taste. Sambar, a hot and spicy lentil soup with mixed vegetables, is a must have accompaniment for popular South Indian breakfast and lunch recipes like Idli This Sambar Recipe is for preparing the simple and traditional Vegetable Sambar and explains it with Step by Step Photos and provides tips to help.

South Indian Vegetable Sambar is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. South Indian Vegetable Sambar is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook south indian vegetable sambar using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:

1. Get Pigeon Pea Lentils
2. Prepare Red Lentils or Masoor
3. Take Salt
4. Get Kashmiri Red chilli powder
5. Prepare Turmeric powder
6. Take Sambar powder
7. Make ready Brinjal cut lengthwise
8. Take Drumsticks cut into pieces
9. Get Carrots thinly cut
10. Get French Beans cut into long pieces
11. Make ready Okra cut into two each
12. Take Shallots
13. Prepare Tomatoes finely chopped
14. Get FOR THE TEMPERING -
15. Get Oil
16. Make ready Mustard Seeds
17. Make ready Asafoetida
18. Get Dry Red chillies
19. Prepare Curry Leaves
20. Make ready Garlic cloves sliced

Sambar is mainly a South Indian Lentil Stew. It is made with lentils, vegetables, tamarind and spices. I have heard the question frequently about which dal (lentil) to use when making sambar. I make sambar mostly with split pigeon pea (toor or arhar dal), but it can be.

Instructions to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:

1. Pressure cook dal along with little Salt added for about 5-6 whistles. Let the pressure settle down before opening the lid. Keep it aside until use. Soak Tamarind in enough water for about 15 minutes or so. Squeeze the juice out of it and keep aside.
2. To a cooking pot, add chopped Vegetables along with Turmeric and Kashmiri Red Chilli powders. Add Tamarind juice and Sambar powder also. And addition of water depends accordingly. Therefore add it until the Veggies are soaked in it. Cover it and let that simmer on a low heat for about 15 minutes.
3. After the Veggies are cooked well, stir in cooked Dal in it. See to it that the Veggies are not over cooked. Mix well and adjust the consistency by adding some hot water.
4. After done, heat oil in a pan. Add Mustard Seeds and Curry Leaves. Also add dry Red Chillies and Garlic Cloves too. Add this tempering to the hot Sambar. Serve this quick Vegetable Sambar with Idlis, Dosas or even plain Rice.

I have heard the question frequently about which dal (lentil) to use when making sambar. I make sambar mostly with split pigeon pea (toor or arhar dal), but it can be. It is popular in South Indian and Sri Lankan cuisines. Sambar - south Indian lentil stew made with vegetables, lentils and a special blend of spices. It's best enjoyed with rice, idli or dosa.

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