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Tiffin sambar

hotel style sambar recipe
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Ingredients

Pressure cook

  • 3 tablespoon moong dal
  • 20 small onion
  • 3 tablespoon toor dal
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 10 drumstick pieces
  • 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 cup water

Cooked dal

  • 1 cup hot water

Roast and grind

  • 1/2 tablespoon coriander seeds
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 tablespoon chana dal
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 5 red chilli adjust according to your taste
  • 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
  • 1/2 teaspoon ghee

Temper

  • 1 tablespoon ghee
  • 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds
  • Curry leaves

Boil

  • 250 grams tomato
  • 2 + 1/2 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
  • 10 grams jaggery
  • Required salt

Saute onion

  • 1 tablespoon peanut oil
  • 1 sliced onion
  • 1 teaspoon Asafoetida
  • 4 teaspoon sambar powder

Sprinkle

  • Coriander leaves few

Instructions

  • Firstly, wash toor dal and moong dal and discard the water
  • Add both dal, small onions, drumsticks, water, turmeric powder, and sesame oil to a pressure cooker
  • Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Simmer for 2 minutes and do natural pressure release
  • Carefully open the cooker and mash the dal
  • Add 1 cup of hot water. Mix well and keep aside
  • Add ingredients under “Roast and grind” in a wide pan
  • saute well till they turn aromatic and turns golden brown
  • Transfer to a plate and cool completely
  • Add it to the mixie jar and grind into a fine powder
  • Add ghee and turn on the stove in medium flame and heat
  • When ghee turns hot add mustard seed and lets them splutter
  • Furthermore, add curry leaves and mix well
  • Add tomatoes and mix well
  • Cook for 5-7 minutes until tomatoes shrink
  • Add water and tamarind extract; mix well
  • Furthermore, add water; mix well and boil for 10 minutes
  • Add jaggery and salt; mix well and boil for 5 minutes
  • Furthermore, add dal and water; mix well and boil for 10 minutes
  • Meanwhile, add oil in a separate pan
  • When oil is hot add onion and saute till onions turn translucent
  • Furthermore, add asafoetida and mix well
  • Turn down to low flame, add sambar powder and mix well
  • Cook for 15 seconds. Turn off and move aside
  • After cooking the sambar for 10 minutes add sauteed onion and mix well
  • Furthermore add water, coriander leaves and bring to boil
  • Turn off the stove. Our tasty tiffin sambar is ready

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