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Sambar(Palakkadan Style)

Description	Spicy sambar - Palakkadan style - Ramya V Add to favorites
Cuisine Style	Kerala Cuisine
Recipe by	Ramya Vijayakumar (Click Here to view more recipes from Ramya Vijayakumar )
Servings	4 Adult(s)
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Comments	Try this out!!!!


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Ingredients for Sambar(Palakkadan Style) Recipe

Vegetables (You can use 1 to 2 cups of any of the below combinations of vegetables)
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Potatoes, Tomatoes, Onions
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Small onions(Kunjulli, Cheriya-ulli) - saute in oil before cooking
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Brinjal(Vazhuthananga), Onion, Tomato - As reqd
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Drum stick, potato, onion, tomato
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Ashgourd, potatoes, tomatoes, onion
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Ladies finger - saute before boiling

Other ingredients
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Red gram(Thuvaraparippu) - 1/2 cup
Tamarind(Puli) - lemon size ball
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As reqd
Coriander leaves for garnishing

For seasoning
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Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Red chillies(Kollamulaku) - 2 nos
Fenugreek(Uluva) - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs

For masala
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Coriander seeds - 2 tbsp
Bengal gram(Kadalaparippu) - 2 tsp
Fenugreek(Uluva) - 1 tsp
Red chillies(Kollamulaku) - 5 nos
Curry leaves - 4 sprigs
Asafoetida(Kayam) - 1/2" piece
Coriander leaves(optional) - few sprigs
Coconut - 3/4 cup
Oil - 2 tbsp





Preparation Method of Sambar(Palakkadan Style) Recipe
1)Heat oil in a pan or a kadai. 2)Fry all ingredients for the masala by adding them one by one(or each separately) till they lose their raw flavour. 3)Grind them to a fine paste. 4)Boil red gram and mash. 5)Add vegetables (except tomato) along with turmeric powder, salt and allow to boil till vegetables are cooked. 6)Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup water and squeeze out the juice and add this to the boiling vegetables. 7)Add cut tomatoes and allow it to boil. 8)Add the ground masala and boil. 9)Heat oil in another small frying pan. 10)Splutter mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chillies and curry leaves. 11)Pour the above seasoning into the sambar. 12)Garnish with coriander leaves. :- Serve with rice, dosas or idlis.

Comments by Visitors

Name	Rajesh
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Comments	Fantastic, myself and enjoyed a fabulous lunch. Have kept the rest for my wife to taste it.
Name	chinnu
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Comments	You havent mentioned the amount of vegetables to be used.Palakkad people wont use ladies finger for sambar?
Name	Deepti
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Comments	It was awesome!!! Thanks for posting
Name	soumya
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Comments	Superb!!!!! Thani Naadan Sambar.
Name	leaha
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Comments	fantastic recipe it turned out nicely keep it up everybody liked it
Name	reenathomas
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Comments	i tied this recipe it was really good
Name	Sanju
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Comments	Fantastic recipe..Will you please post avial also? (I wanted to ask all sadya ones..)Thank you!!
Name	sibitha
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Comments	excellent
Name	uma maheswari
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Comments	It is very very gud which is suiting to lunch and tiffin
Name	Ramya V
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Comments	For getting more Palakkadan recipes, click the `Recipe By` link at the top of this page. Click here for Vendakka Puli For more recipes by me search for `Ramya`
Name	Anu Alex
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Comments	This recipe was a super hit at my home!!
Name	SN
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Comments	That was a great recipe. Easy to follow and very clearly stated procedures. Ramya, most of your recipes seem to be good. Its now easy to look for the "RIGHT PERSON`s" recipes. :-)
Name	Dhanya
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Comments	Thank you for this wonderful recipe
Name	vengita
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Comments	Thank you Ramya. It really came very well and my husband like it very much.
Name	suresh
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Comments	very good
Name	sundaresan
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Comments	As my family is in india am eating from hotel. Friday as it was a holiday, i cooked rice and curry as per your recipe. It was wonderful. Next friday I will try others. Thank you very much. Rgds Sunder
Name	Vini
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Comments	Hi Ramya, Thank you for this wonderful recipe!
Name	Ramya V
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Comments	I am really glad to see all these comments Please search for `ramya` to get other recipes posted by me :-)
Name	supriya
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Comments	Awesome would be an understatement and i mean that.I usually make about 4 or 5 different kinds of sambar but the palakkadan sambar is way ahead in the league.Thank you Ramya for sharing this wonderful recipe. Looking forward to many more gems from you.
Name	Priya Murali
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Comments	As a fresher to this cooking world, i made sambar for the first time following this recipe and my husband loved it. Thanks to u ramya.
Name	amins
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Comments	i have made this receipe countless times already!!!! Its simple superb.:))
Name	Sonia
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Comments	Really Excellent..Everyone must try this recipe....
Name	sankar
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Comments	soooooooooooooooooooper taste. Thanks.
Name	narayanan gopal
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Comments	Romba pramathamaana sambaar...
Name	Lituana Alfred
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Comments	Hi,excellent dish..sambar was one of my major attractions when i visited India..this sambar is too good...
Name	Sajith
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Comments	Never thought making Sambar was so easy.....superb recipe
Name	chitra
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Comments	palakkadan sambar making waves..
Name	Karthika Sadashivan
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Comments	I am from Palakkad and I was looking for an authentic Palakkad Sambhar recipe...It turned out really well...

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Spicy sambar - Palakkadan style - Ramya V

Ingredients for Sambar(Palakkadan Style) Recipe

Preparation Method of Sambar(Palakkadan Style) Recipe