Vysya's Delicious Recipes: Tiffin Sambar Recipe - Hotel Style Tiffin Sambar - Idli Sambar Recipe

This tiffin Sambar goes very well with Idli, dosa,pongal and ulundu vadai(Garelu). The taste of sambar is derived from the spices used in it. This is a hotel style tiffin sambar with Pictures . Toor dal is one of most important ingredient used in preparing the popular south Indian dish sambar .Toor dal or Tur dal is staple food in Indian cuisine.Tur dal is one of most prominent lentil among all the others available and exhibits a thick gelatinous meaty consistency.It is easily digestible and absorbs the flavor of other spices quickly.

Ingredients

Toor Dal - 1/3 cup.

drumstick - 2. [chopped].

Pearl onions - 10.

tomato(big) - 1.

tamarind - small amla size.

turmeric - 1 pinch.
oil - to fry.
salt - to taste.

To Make Paste

Toor dal - 1 tbsp.

channa dal - 1/2 tbsp.
cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Red chillies - 6.
coriander seeds - 1 tbsp.
curry leaves - 6.
coconut- 3 tbsp.
fenu greek seeds - 1/4 tsp.
oil - to fry.

Dry Roast all the ingredients,except coconut in a kadai, till it turns Golden brown.switch off the flame. Add coconut. it cooks in the heat of kadai.
Then grind everything in a blender or mixie with a little water into a fine paste.

Seasoning

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp.

curry leaves - 1 sprig.

red chilly -1.

hing - 1/4 tsp.
Ghee - 1 tsp.

Preparation

pressure cook the toor dal with a pinch of turmeric in a needed water until it turns mushy.
prepare tamarind extract,by soaking tamarind in little water for 1 hour. Then squeeze the tamarind,throw the pulp & retain the water.

Method

Heat the oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add Pearl onions,then add tomato,add drumstick saute well for few minutes.Then add needed water, let it boil till the drumstick is soft.

Add ground paste stir well.
When it starts boiling,add cooked toor dal .Then add salt ,stir well.
Finally add tamarind extract let it boil for few seconds, till the raw smell goes.
In a mean while, heat the Ghee in a kadai,add mustard seeds when it splutters, add curry leaves ,red chillies,hing saute it and add to sambar.Now sambar is ready.