How to make idli sambhar😋😋😋

Idli sambar recipe 

Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

35 mins

Idli sambar recipe - a quick cook sambar made with fast cooking veggies. It is served with plain rice or south Indian idli, dosa, vada.

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

for sambhar powder

• 1 tbsp chana dal
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• ½ tbsp urad dal
• ½ tsp cumin/jeera
• ¼ tsp methi seeds
• 3 red chilies (adjust as needed)
• 2 tbsp. grated fresh coconut (optional)

other ingredients

• ¾ cup dal (refer notes)
• 2 cups water to cook dal
• Lemon sized ball of tamarind
• Salt as needed
• 12 to 15 shallots/ sambar onions
• 6 to 8 beans
• 1 medium carrots
• ½ cup of chopped pumpkin (optional)
• 1 large ripe tomato
• ⅛ tsp turmeric
• handful of coriander leaves with stalks chopped
• 4.5 cups water (adjust depending on quality of dal)

tempering

• 2 sprigs curry leaves
• 1 red chili broken
• ¾ tsp cumin
• ¾ tsp mustard
• pinch of methi
• pinch of hing

How to make the recipe

1. Wash and pressure cook dal with 2 cups of water for 2 whistles or until soft. Or cook in a pot until soft. Mash it and set aside. If you like the hotel style tiffin sambar, you can also add pumpkin to the dal for cooking. Mash everything together and set aside.
2. Soak tamarind in little hot water, squeeze and extract the pulp. Keep this aside.
3. Dry roast the ingredients for sambar powder as mentioned in the step by step instructions above. Cool them and powder.
4. Add oil to a pot and heat up. allow cumin, mustard and methi to splutter. Add Red chilies, curry leaves and hing. When the leaves turn crisp, set aside half the tempering if you wish to add at the end.
5. Add veggies and saute for 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and saute until soft.
6. Add sambhar powder and saute for a minute without burning.
7. Pour water and cook until the vegetables are soft cooked.
8. Add filtered tamarind and dal. Stir and bring it to a boil.
9. Add the rest of the tempering and coriander leaves. When it begins to bubble. Switch off.
10. Serve hot with idli, dosa, uthappam, pongal.

Notes

You can make this idli sambar recipe using toor dal alone or ½ cup toor dal ,¼ cup moong dal. Hotel style sambar is made using masoor dal. You can use whatever you like.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 380 Fat: 11g Carbohydrates: 33g Protein: 36g