SAMBAR RICE RECIPE

SAMBAR PODI

Making sambar with samabar podi is a different method than the traditional one.  First, we are going to see how to make sambar podi (powder)

INGREDIENTS:

1. Toor dal – 100 g
2. Coriander – 100 g
3. Cumin seeds – 50 g
4. Curry leaves small amount
5. Pepper – 50 g
6. Red chilly – 15 pieces
7. Asafoetida (perungayam) – 2-1/2 pieces
8. Salt to taste
9. Dry ginger - 5 pieces
10. Cooking oil - 2 tablespoon
11. Saunf (sombu) - 20g
12. Fenugreek - 20g
13. Mustard - 20g
14. Turmeric - 3 pieces

METHOD:

1.  Fry all the above ingredients together in kadai with cooking oil.

2.  Now put all the ingredients in the mixer with some salt and grind them well.

3.  Fine sambar podi is ready to make sambar.

SAMBAR

Now let us see how to make sambar using the above sambar podi.

INGREDIENTS:   To serve 5 people

1. Brinjal – 250g
2. Drumstick – 2
3. Small onion – 50g
4. Raw mango – 1
5. Tomato – Big – 3 or small – 4
6. Tamarind small amount
7. Turmeric powder – 2 pinches
8. Chilli powder – 2 tablespoons
9. Coriander powder - 1 tablespoon
10. Sambar podi – 2 tablespoon
11. Red chilli – Big – 2 or small – 4
12. Mustard – 1 pinch
13. Fenugreek – 4 pieces
14. Curry leaves
15. Cooking oil – 3 tablespoon
16. Salt to taste

TO BOIL:

1. Toor dal – 300g
2. Turmeric powder – 1 pinch
3. Garlic – 1 full
4. Water – 4 cups
5. Asafoetida – 1 pinch

METHOD:

1.  Put the toor dal into the cooker add water , turmeric powder, garlic and asafoetida and pressure cook them for four whistles and keep it aside.

2.  Now keep a vessel on flame pour oil and add mustard, red chilli, curry leaves and onion and stir them well till golden brown.

3.  Add the cut vegetables and spill turmeric powder, chilli powder, sambar powder, coriander powder and some salt to taste.

4.  Then stir them well till the masalas get mixed and add tomatoes and water and leave them to boil till the vegetables get cooked.

5.  When they get thick add some tamarind juice and the boiled well mixed toor dal to it and stir them well.

6.  Let them boil for 10 mins.

7.  Decorate with curry leaves.

SAMBAR RICE

Let us see how to make this Saravana Bhavan style sambar sadam

INGREDIENTS: To serve 5 people

1. Ghee – 6 tablespoons
2. Sambar as needed

METHOD:

1.  Now take a kadai and keep on flame when it gets hot pour the ghee and add the prepared sambar into it and stir them well.

2.  After this you can mix the fresh cooked rice to it and add sambar to the rice whenever it gets thick for 5 to 6 times.

3.  Wait and stir the sambar rice till it becomes like saravana bhavan style.

4.  Now sambar rice is ready to eat with mixed vegetable.

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Happy Cooking!