Name: Sadhya Sambar
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Dal (Parippu); 2 tbsp Sambar powder; Onion(big); Potato; Ladies finger(Vendakka); Yellow pumpkin(Mathanga); Drumstick(Muringakka); 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder; Salt (As reqd); Tamarind (A gooseberry sized ball, Puli); 1/2 of Tomato; 1 tsp Mustard seeds; 2 - Dry red chillies (Kollamulaku); Coriander leaves (A few); Curry leaves (A few); 1 tbsp Oil

Sadhya Sambar

Sadhya Sambar

Sadhya Sambar is a traditional way of cooking sambar with loads of vegetables and spices. For Onam sadya, you may need to cook so many recipes for the feast. I am sure this easy sambar recipe will help you save lots of time when compared with varutharacha sambar with spices and coconut. Of course taste may not be equal to the traditional Kerala sambar still you can give a try. The vegetables most commonly used for preparing sambar are potato, winter melon, onion, carrot, cucumber, brinjal, snake gourd, drum stick, tomato and amara payar/hyacinth bean. You could even add vegetables like pumpkin, okra, elephant yam, raw banana, tindora/kovakka, beans etc,

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Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

Cuisine Kerala

Servings people

Ingredients

1/2 cup Dal Parippu
2 tbsp Sambar powder
Onion(big)
Potato
Ladies finger(Vendakka)
Yellow pumpkin(Mathanga)
Drumstick(Muringakka)
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt As reqd
Tamarind A gooseberry sized ball, Puli
1/2 of Tomato
1 tsp Mustard seeds
2 - Dry red chillies Kollamulaku
Coriander leaves A few
Curry leaves A few
1 tbsp Oil

Instructions

Pressure cook dal and keep it aside.
Put tamarind in a little water and extract the juice.
Heat up a vessel.
Boil all the vegetables in it except tomato.
When done, add the boiled dal, salt and tomato.
When it boils further, add tamarind juice followed by sambar powder.
:- Take some water from the boiling curry and add it into the sambar powder and then add that into the boiling curry.
Allow it to boil again.
Add coriander leaves and curry leaves.
Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
Splutter mustard seeds and saute red chillies and curry leaves.
Add the above seasoning into the above sambar.
:- Sambar is ready.
:- Serve sambar hot with rice.
:- For other sadhya items, see my other sadhya recipes.

Notes

You can explore this dish Special Easy Sambar
You can also visit spicy sambar

In conclusion, this simplified Sadhya Sambar recipe is a time-saver without compromising much on flavor. For more traditional dishes like this, check out our collection of Kerala recipes for your next Onam feast.

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Response (3)

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Butterflies July 14, 2006

Who would ever use 1 cup dal in sambar?!Especially when u only have half cup veggies!

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Sitara January 30, 2009

Awesome recipe. I think the previous comment is not valid. Dal has been mentioned as 1/2 cup and three vegetables (1/2 cup each) ..

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Anu Thomas October 19, 2024

This Sambar Sadhya is a must-have in every Kerala feast and a perfect example of Popular Kerala recipes!