Kerala Special Vegetable Sambar

Kerala Special Vegetable Sambar

 

 

 

 Most Keralites are celebrating ONAM Festival.  They prepare Onam sadhya which is a Kerala Special Thali and has as many as 29 items in one Thali. Out of these items Mixed vegetable Sambaris one such dish.Main Side dish for Onam Thali.  I wish to give a treat to my viewers by providing this simple and quick to make recipe - Kerala Special Mixed veggie Sambar.

 

 

 

Serves: 6 persons

Preparation Time: 20 minutes

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

 

 

 

Ingredients

For Dhal

Thur dhal – 200 gram

Turmeric pwd – ¼ tspn

Methi seeds – ¼ tpsn

 

 Vegetables

(Yam,pumkin,beans,carrot,tinda,brinjal,raw manga,big cucumber,drumstick, green banana,bitter gourd – ½ kg)

Red chilli pwd – ½ tspn

Coriander pwd – ½ tspn

Small onion – 10nos

Big onion – 1

Green chilli – 2 nos

Tomato – 2 nos

Kudampuli – 3 nos

 

For tempering

Oil KL nirmal coconut oil (or) sunflower oil – 4 tspn

Ghee – 2 tspn

Whole red chilli – 3 nos

Mustard seeds – 1 tspn

Cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Garlic – 4 pods

Curry leaves – few

Eastern Sambar pwd – 2 tspn

 

Method

Wash dhal and add water , turmeric pwd, methi seeds and  cook the dhal in a pressure cooker until soft, mash it and keep it aside.

Wash kudampuli and soak it in a hot water.

Heat the cooker add 1 tspn oil temper with mustard seeds, curry leaves.

 

Add onion, tomato and green chilli sauté  for 5 mins.

Add all the veggie mix well and add red chilli pwd, coriander pwd turmeric pwd, salt and  stir it well add 1 glass of water and  close the cooker lid , leave it for  2 whistles and remove from the heat.

In a wide vessel temper with 3tspn oil + ghee,mustard seeds , whole red chilli , curry leaves , garlic, asofeotida fry for  2 to 3 min.

Add onion, sambar pwd sauté well and add mashed dhal, add required amt of water and  cook for 5 min.

Now add the cooked veggies, soaked kudampuli and cook for 10 min.

 

 

 Note: Keralites are using kudmpuli for puli kuzmpu/katta salana, I always use bitter gourd in the sambar, if we cook bitter gourd with sambar we couldn’t find the bitter taste.If you don’t have eastern sambar pwd , use any other brand.

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