Samber

Sambar

Roasted Gram Sambar

Ingredients:

peeled small onions - 1/2 cup
tomatoes - 3 medium sized
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
salt - as required
sugar or jaggery - optional

Fry and powder:

dhania - 1 tsp
red chillies - 8

Method:

Powder separately:

roasted bengal gram - 1 1/2 Tbl.sps

Chop onions and tomatoes.
Heat little oil and season with little mustard seeds.
Add onions and then tomatoes.
Fry well and pour water with salt and turmeric.
Boil till raw flavour is lost.
Add ground mixture of dhania and chillies.
Boil for few more minutes.
Just before removing from fire add gram powder which is made into a paste with water.
Garnish with curry leaves and coriander leaves

Green Gram Dhal Sambar

Ingredients:

green gram dhal - 2 Tbl.sps
sambar onions - 1/2 cup
green chillies - 3
tomatoes - 2
thick tamarind extract - 2 Tbl.sps
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
sambar powder - 2 tsps
salt - as required

Method:

Pressure cook dhal till one whistle sound.
Chop tomatoes.
Peel small onions.
Slit green chillies.
Fry green chillies, onions and tomatoes in oil.
Add cooked dhal, salt, sambar powder, tamarind extract with enough water.
Boil till thick.
In little oil tamper mustard seeds, black gram dhal and bengal gram dhal.
Pour over sambar and garnish with curry leaves.

Variation :

Use whole green gram in place of dhal. Soak in water for 10 hours. Pressure cook, mash little and do the sambar.

Tomato Sambar

Ingredients:

cooked red gram dhal - 1/2 cup
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
salt - as required
curry leaves & coriander leaves - 2 Tbl.sps
tomatoes - 2 (chop into cubes)

Fry in oil and grind together:

cumin seed - 1 tsp (jeera)
green chillies - 7
chopped tomatoes - 1/4 cup (grated fresh coconut - 2 Tbl.sps)
add coconut while grinding

Method:

Mash dhal well.
Add other ingredients with ground paste and enough water.
Boil till raw flavour is lost.
Garnish with curry leaves and coriander leaves.

Coconut Sambar
Ingredients:
- big onions - 2
- tomatoes - 3
- green chillies - 6
- salt - as required
- turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Grind together:
- grated fresh coconut - 3 Tbl.sps
- cinnamon - 1 inch piece
- poppy seeds - 2 tsps
- roasted gram - 1 Tbl.sp
Method:
- Chop onions, green chillies and tomatoes lengthwise.
- Heat little oil, season with mustard seeds, curry leaves and fenugreek.
- Add chillies, onions and after sometime tomatoes.
- Fry well till raw flavour goes.
- Pour water with salt and turmeric powder.
- Add ground paste just before removing from fire.
Sambar Powder
- Coriander seeds- 1/2 cup
- Asafetida- 1 tsp
- Red chilies- 5
- Curry leaves- 5
- Channa dhal- 2 tablespoons
- Urad dhal- 2 tablespoons
- Whole black peppers- 1/2 tsp
- Fenugreek seeds- 2 tsps
- Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
Dry roast the 1st four ingredients and set aside. Roast the other ingredients one by one separately (Be careful not to burn them). Grind all the roasted ingredients together to a powder. And store in an airtight container