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,
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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