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| Prep Time | 30 minutes |
| Servings |
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Ingredients
- Red gram(Thuvaraparippu) - 1/2 cup
- Salt(As reqd) -
- Tamarind(A lemon sized ball or as reqd, Puli) -
- Chilly powder - 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
- Ghee - 1/2 tsp
- Vegetable -
- Onion - 3 nos
- Drumstick(Muringakkai) - 3 nos
- Lady's finger(Vendakkai) - 5 nos
- Carrot - 1 no
- Potatoes(medium) - 2 nos
- Raw Plantains(Pachakai) - 1 no
- Brinjal(Vazhuthananga) - 1 no
- Tomato - 2 nos
- Green chillies - 2 -
- Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
- For seasoning: -
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Dry chillies(Unakka mulaku) - 2 -
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
- For grinding: -
- Grated Coconut - 2 cups
- Cumin seeds(Jeerakam) - 1 pinch
- Fenugreek seeds(Uluva) - 1 pinch
- Pepper(Kurumulaku) - 5 -
- Coriander powder - 2 tsp
- Asafoetida(Kayam) - 1 pinch
- Garlic pods - 2 nos
- Small onions(Kunjulli) - 2 nos
- Curry leaves - 1 spring
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Instructions
- Fry coconut with all ingredients listed for grinding except coriander powder.
- When coconut turns golden brown, add coriander powder and fry for 1 min.
- Allow it to cool and grind it to a fine paste.
- Cut all the vegetables into even sized pieces.
- Cook red gram or dal in a pressure cooker along with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, a pinch of salt, ghee and the required quantity of water, until half cooked.
- Add chilly powder followed by the vegetables one by one according to their cooking time into the dal.
- :- For instance, potatoes first followed by others and finally add tomatoes.
- Add the extracted tamarind juice into the vessel.
- When all the vegetables are cooked, add the coconut paste and allow it to boil.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Splutter mustard seeds and fry red chillies and curry leaves.
- Add the above seasoning into the cooked sambar.
- Add coriander leaves and mix well.
- :- Serve hot with rice.
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7 comments
Good one. Tastes pretty good.
Valare nalla recipie..
I prepared this recipe, it is very good..
Having lived in Chennai for a large part of my life,I only knew how to cook a Tamilian sambar.Thanks Deepthi, for sharing ur excellent recipe with the rest of us.And especially for showing me that the Kerala sambar is scrumptious in a different way!!!
Thanks Deepti for this excellent recipe …
Simple and Excellent recipe
VERY GOOD…………..