Hotel Sambar
My husband was a pure Non-Vegetarian before our marriage. He started eating vegetarian dishes only after our marriage. He is very bad ,eating sambar and he will do all the tricks to escape from sambar whenever I prepare it. But when we go to vegetarian hotels like Saravanan Bhavan, Vasantha Bhavan, he would have asked for second cup, before i finish mine. Once i tried this hotel sambar recipe, he was very excited and he liked it very much.. kumudha Happy Annachi!!!
Here is that scrumptious sambar..
Ingredients: (Recipe for 2)
For Sambar:
Toor Dal - 1/2 cup (Thuvaram Parupu)
Brinjal (Egg Plant) - 3
Drumstick - 1
Small Onions - 7 or 9
Tomato - 1/2
Tamarind - 1 lemon size ball
Green Chilli - 1
Salt - As required
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Leaves - few
Oil - for seasoning
To Grind:
Chopped Coconut - 2 tbsp
Roasted Gram - 2 tsp (Pori Kadalai)
Tomato - 1 and a half
Sambar Powder - 2 tsp
For seasoning:
Oil - As required
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Urad Dal - 1 tsp
Dry Chilli - 1
Curry Leaves - few
Procedure:
- Cook well toor dal , with little turmeric powder, asafoetida and a tsp of gingely oil.
- Chop Brinjal and Drumstick into little bigger pieces. Peel and wash small onions. Chop tomatoes.
- Grind all the things mentioned under 'To Grind'.
- Extract juice from tamarind.
- Add ground coconut-tomato paste and all vegetables to cooked toor dal. Add tamarind juice, salt and turmeric powder to it.. Add enough water and cook all together for 1 whistle.
- Do the seasoning and add it to the sambar.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it!!!
