
Total time: 35 ~ 40 minutes
Preparation time: 15 ~ 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4 ~ 5 nos
Sourecs: sarasyummybites
INGREDIENTS:
¼ cup toor dal
½ cup chopped onions
½ cup chopped tomatoes
1 green chilli
1 cup cubed Vegetable of your choice
½ cup tamarind juice from gooseberry size tamarind
1 tsp sambar powder or curry powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
Mnced cilantro as required
Salt to taste
Water as required
For grinding
1 tsp oil
2~ 3 red chillies
1 tsp coriander seeds
½ tsp channa dal
¼ tsp methi seeds
½ tsp hing /Asafetida
2 tbsp grated coconut
Curry leaves as required
For Seasoning:
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp ghee
½ tsp mustard seeds
¼ tsp urad dhal
¼ tsp cumin seeds
1 red chilli powder
Few Curry leaves
Method :
Preparation:
- Pressure cook dal with required water with pinch of turmeric powdr, ¼ tsp cumin, 2 ~ 3 garlic pods for 3 ~ 4 whistle and keep it aside.
- When pressure drops, remove the lid and mash the dhal slightly.
- Extract juice from tamarind with ½ cup of water and keep it aside.
- Roast first five grinding ingredients with 1 tsp of oil. Finelly add shredded or sliced coconut and curry leaves and saute for few seaconds and turn off the heat.
- Cool and grind the grinding ingredients in to a paste.
Cooking:
- Heat oil in a pan, add onions and fry for few minutes until it become soft.
- Add green chilli and vegetables and saute it for few minutes, then add chopped tomatoes and fry for few seconds until it become soft.
- Add sambar powder, turmeric powder, tamarind juice and salt with required amount of water.Allow it to boil.
- When vegetables are soften, add cooked dal and ground paste. mix and adjust water to required consistency. Adjust salt to taste.
- Add the seasoning to the prepared sambar with minced cilantro and serve hot with steamed rice.

Sambar without onions and garlic
Ingredients:
¼ cup toor dal
½ cup chopped tomatoes
1 geen chilli
1 cup cubed Vegetable of your choice
½ cup tamarind juice from gooseberry size tamarind
1 tsp sambar powder or curry powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
For grinding:
1 tsp oil
4 ~ 5 red chilli powder
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp channa dal
¼ tsp methi seeds
½ hing / Asafedita
3 tbsp shredded or 4 medium slice coconut
Curry leaves as required
For Seasoning:
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp ghee
½ tsp mustard seeds
¼ tsp urad dhal
¼ tsp cumin seeds
Few Curry leaves
Preparation:
- Pressure cook dal with required water with pinch of turmeric powdr, ¼ tsp cumin for 3 ~ 4 whistle and keep it aside.
- When pressure drops, remove the lid and mash the dhal slightly.
- Extract juice from tamarind with ½ cup of water and keep it aside.
- Roast first five grinding ingredients with 1 tsp of oil. Finelly add shredded or sliced coconut and curry leaves and saute for few seaconds and turn off the heat.
- Cool and grind the grinding ingredients in to a paste.
Cooking:
- Boil vegetables with tamarind water, turmeric and chillies in medium heat till it become soft.
- Add ground paste and cooked dhal. Mix well and boil with
- required amund of water. Adjust salt to taste.
- Heat oil and ghee mixture in a pan, add mustard seeds to splutter, add split urad dhal, cumin, hing and curry leaves and fry for few seaconds.
- Add the seasoning to the with minced cilantro prepared sambar and serve hot with steamed rice.













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deliciously done sambar
Very flavorful masala makes sambar looks so delicious.....
Nice sambar! Looks delicious ! Fresh ground masala always enhances the taste!
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very favorful and looks tempting......Nice one.
Delicious and mouthwatering sambar.
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Very delicious sambar.
have never tried though heard much abt it.. willl give a try... 🙂
Lip smacking & delicious sambar.
This sambar is usually the more preferred one than the one that uses the sambar powder. Its more flavorful actually.
Awesome sambar! I love the flavor the freshly ground masala imparts to sambar.
so nice and creamy - perfect for a cold winter day
Love it! All it needs is some idlis/dosas on the side 😉
I always love arachu vitta sambar, the fresh aroma is always so tempting!
Delicious preparation I love it
have never tried though heard much abt it.. willl give a try... 🙂