AUTHENTIC SOUTH INDIAN SAMBAR

Authentic South Indian Sambar

Welcome to our blog Spice is Nice.
Today we debut our food blog by writing an authentic Sambar recipe (spicy south indian curry) that tastes wonderful with idlis, wadas or just plain white rice.

Ingredients (6 people serving)

• 1tbsp coriander seed
• 5 red chilli pepper
• 1 tsp pepper corn
• 1 tbsp cumin
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1 tbsp rice
• 1 tbsp chana dal
• 1 tsp fenugreek seeds
• 4-5 cloves
• 2 inch cinnamon stick
• 10 curry leaves
• 1 tbsp grated coconut
• 3 big flakes garlic
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 2 tomatoes (medium sized)
• 2 long green chillies (cut)
• tamarind date sauce
• 1 large onion sliced as medium pieces
• You may use different vegetables like okra, potatoes, carrot, cauliflower, bottle gourd(lauki), drum stick, green beans for sambar
  

Directions

1. On medium flame, first dry roast,
   1 tbsp coriander seed
   5 red chilli peppers
   1 tsp pepper corn
   1 tbsp cumin
   1 tsp mustard
   1 tbsp chana dal
   1 tsp fenugreek
   4-5 cloves
   0.5 strip cinnamon
2. After dry roasting these ingredients, set it aside in a blender.
3. Now add some olive oil to your pan, add garlic (3 big flakes) and 1 inch garlic sliced to the oil, add 1 tbsp grated coconut and part of cut tomatoes. Sauté it a bit and put this in a blender to the dry roasted mix already in it.
4. Add water and blend the masala mix and set it aside.Separately, cook tuvar daal ( 2 cup measure) with 4.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker.
5. In a tall cooking pot, add 3-4 tbsp oil and put on medium flame.When oil is warmed up, add mustard, cumin seeds, and fenugreek(methi) seed as they pop.
6. Add cut onions, some turmeric and some green chilies and sauté until the sweet smell of the onions disappears.
7. Add all the veggies, tamarind sauce, masala mix and lots of water and let the veggies 3/4th cook.
8. Add the cooked dal to this and some more water to dilute the sambar.
9. Add salt, brown sugar and/or tamarmind sauce as per your taste.
10. Enjoy!!