Easiest Way to Make Super Quick Homemade South Indian Vegetable Sambar

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, south indian vegetable sambar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

South Indian Vegetable Sambar is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. South Indian Vegetable Sambar is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have south indian vegetable sambar using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:

1. Prepare 1 cup Pigeon Pea Lentils
2. Get 1/2 cup Red Lentils or Masoor
3. Get 1 tsp Salt
4. Prepare 1 tbsp Kashmiri Red chilli powder
5. Get 1 tsp Turmeric powder
6. Make ready 2 tbsp Sambar powder
7. Make ready 1 cup Brinjal cut lengthwise
8. Prepare 1 cup Drumsticks cut into pieces
9. Take 1/2 cup Carrots thinly cut
10. Take 1 cup French Beans cut into long pieces
11. Prepare 1 cup Okra cut into two each
12. Take 10 Shallots
13. Prepare 3 Tomatoes finely chopped
14. Prepare FOR THE TEMPERING -
15. Get 2-3 tbsp Oil
16. Get 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
17. Prepare 1/8 tsp Asafoetida
18. Make ready 3-4 Dry Red chillies
19. Make ready 2 Sprigs Curry Leaves
20. Get 2-3 Garlic cloves sliced

Steps to make South Indian Vegetable Sambar:

1. Pressure cook dal along with little Salt added for about 5-6 whistles. Let the pressure settle down before opening the lid. Keep it aside until use. Soak Tamarind in enough water for about 15 minutes or so. Squeeze the juice out of it and keep aside.
2. To a cooking pot, add chopped Vegetables along with Turmeric and Kashmiri Red Chilli powders. Add Tamarind juice and Sambar powder also. And addition of water depends accordingly. Therefore add it until the Veggies are soaked in it. Cover it and let that simmer on a low heat for about 15 minutes.
3. After the Veggies are cooked well, stir in cooked Dal in it. See to it that the Veggies are not over cooked. Mix well and adjust the consistency by adding some hot water.
4. After done, heat oil in a pan. Add Mustard Seeds and Curry Leaves. Also add dry Red Chillies and Garlic Cloves too. Add this tempering to the hot Sambar. Serve this quick Vegetable Sambar with Idlis, Dosas or even plain Rice.

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