Mix Vegetable Sambar
A vegetable sambar is a hot lentil stew made with special spice mix ground to make sambar powder or fresh ground masala mixed with assorted vegetables.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
For sambar:
- Mixed Veggies - whole pealed and washed
- Tamarind - 2 tbs or 1 cup depending on the sourness of the tamarind
- Toor dal - 1/2 cup cooked
- Moong dal - 2 tbs
- Turmeric - 1 tsp
- Water 2 cups or as needed
- Salt to taste
For seasoning:
- Curry leaves - 1 stand
- Oil - 2 tbs
- Mustard seeds - 2 tsp
For Sambar Masala:
- Sambar Powder -2-3 tsp
- Couple of small onions or 1/4 of medium sized onion. optional
- Jaggary - 1/2 tbsOil - 1 tsp
- Soaked and peeled Almonds - 6-8
Instructions
- In a think bottomed pan add little oil and add the vegetables. I used my Kalchutti for my heavy bottom pan. Cook them till it 1/2 way though.
- Add a little salt to flavor the veggies.
- Pressure cook the Toor dal and moong dal optional in cooker for 2-3 whistles. While the rest of the items are prepped.
- Add the tamarind paste( add water as needed) and turmeric to the vegetable mix and let it boil.
- Once the mixture boils add in the ground paste to it and let it all cook for 5-10 minutes.
- The mixture should bubble and the raw onion smell should be gone.
- Mash up the cooked dal and add it to the mixture. Add salt as needed. Let the mixture or another 5 minus in low-med flame.
- Once it boils to form a frothy layer, turn off the heat. In a separate pan heat the rest of the oil and add the mustard seeds and curry leaves crackle and season the sambar.
Notes
- If you are using fresh tamarind water instead of the paste make sure that the raw smell of tamarind is gone before adding the ground masala.
- You can add any of the vegetable of your choice. Drumstick, beans, carrot, radish, eggplant, potato etc...
- For keto version skip the dal and simple add little of the clear dal water. and add more almonds to thicken the gravy.