Basic sambar recipe for beginners

Basic sambar recipe for beginners

Ingredients - Basic sambar recipe for beginners

Toor dal / red gram / thuvaram paruppu - 1/4 cup

Tomato - 2

Beans - 10 no.

Carrot, potato, brinjal - 1 no. in each

Bottle gourd - few pieces ( you can choose any vegetables )

Green chilli - 1

Dry chilli - 2

Onion - 1/4 cup

Garlic - 2 no.

Jaggery - small cube

Tamarind - small pulp

Mustard seed - 3/4 tsp

Urad dal - 1 tsp

Spices - Basic sambar recipe for beginners

( Instead of these spices you can use 3 tsp of ready made sambar powder like MTR, Shakthi, etc..,)

Chilli pdr & coriander pdr - 1 tsp each\

Cumin & fennel seed pdr - 1/2 tsp each

Asafoetida & turmeric pdr - pinch

Garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Method - Basic sambar recipe for beginners

1. Cook toor dal till it becomes mushy, set aside.

2. Make tomato puree from a tomato to get nice colour for sambar.

3. Heat a kadai with 2 tsp of oil , crackle mustard seed and urad dal.  Then saute curry leaves, green chilli, garlic, onion, dry chilli  till you get light colour change.

4. Now add all vegetables with sauteed ingredients. Add tomato puree, spices, salt, jaggery, tamarind water and required water.

5. Add these mixture with cooked toor dal and let it cook for 2 pressure sounds.

6. Garnish sambar with corinader leaves