Description
Once in a while i make Sambaar with lots of vegetables. I find this kind of Sambaar to be more healtier than usual sambaar with one or two vegetables.Heard from an aunty that while cooking there must be different colours of vegetables as each and every coloured vegetables has different kinds of vitamins in them .For example when u make green leaves with dal then make carrot Poriyal. Though both look colourful , we all definitely know that Green leaves and carrot are good for health. I kept these words in mind and started making Sambaar with mixed vegetables once in 2 weeks.
So here is the recipe. Hope u will find this interesting.
| Ingredients-1 | |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | Toor dal |
| 1 | Tomato (big) |
| pinch | Turmeric powder |
| Ingredients-2 | |
|---|---|
| Oil and salt as required | |
| 1 T | Mustard, fenugreek and cumin seeds |
| 1 tsp | Karuvadagam[optional] |
| Few curry leaves | |
| 1 | Onion[medium sized finely chopped] |
| ½ tsp | Hing |
| Mixed vegetables[of ur own choice or refer picture] | |
| 1 T | Tamarind paste |
| 2 T | Sambaar powder |
| 1 T | Ghee[optional] |
| Corriander leaves for garnishing. |
Instructions
1.Pressure cook dal with Tomato and turmeric powder and keep it aside.
2.Chop the desired vegetables and keep it aside.
3.Take a pan add oil ,mustard cumin seeds and fenugreek ,once when mustard splutters, add karuvadagam , curry leaves and onion and saute well.
4.Now add all the veggies and saute well.
5.Add sambaar powder, salt and mix well .
6.Add water and tamarind paste and allow them to boil.
7.Now add the cooked dal and mix well.
8.Leave it on sim for 10 minutes and add a table spoon of ghee[optional] and garnish it with corriander leaves.
Hot Sambaar is ready to be served.
12 Comments
thanx manju and sadhana…..
Can Karuvadagam be prepared at home. If so can you please give the recipe. Or is it available in any Indian Stores in US.
himangal,
i just got this from one of the sites..haven't tried so far …so no queries …
VADAGHAM:
Ingredients needed: Small onions-3kg, 6 whole garlic pods, mustard seeds-200gms, fenugreek seeds-100gms, split black gram-250gms, cumin seeds-250grams, salt especially crystal salt-2 handfuls, castor oil-200ml,
Method:
Remove the outer skins and chop onions and garlic finely. Add all the other things with it. These combined ingredients are always pressurised and smashed in a ‘ural’ lightly. Instead you can crush them with a hammer lightly so that they can be moulded into balls.[lemon sized balls]. Take care not to crush them in full force then the juice will ooze out. Make the balls and place them all in a flat plate. Dry them in hot sun. In the evening, break all of them, add half of the castor oil, mix well and make balls again. In the morning, place them on the plate and again let it dry on the heat of the sun. Again in the evening do the same process using the other half portion of the castor oil. These balls must be dried in the hot sun for 4 or 5 days until they are well dried.. Then you can keep them for a whole year-even for more days.
Thanx Varshitha..hope it helps Mangala
Sadhana Raveen
HI Mangala
karuvadagam can be made at home, but i donno the recipe….But i m sure thata it is available in most of the Indian store,,,donno abt US…sorry abt that.
Sadhana Raveen
sadana looking colorful & good
Thanx Viji
Sadhana Raveen
hi sadhana, unga sambar romba nalla erukku…..adding tomatoes always gives more taste…sadhana enakku romba naal oru doubt erukku….i heard one of my friend saying that using more tomatoes will cause stone in kidney…..is it true? i use more tomatoes…..
Hi Vidhya,
I have also heard that tomatoes could cause kidney stone. Its always better to remove the seeds in the tomatoes and use only the flesh. Not sure if there is any proven theories on this.
Hi Vidhya and Manjupriya
Thanx a lot…. Vidhya i wud agree wid Manju, as soon as i saw ur mssg i went and searched for prevention and cause of Kidney stone and found that if one has to prevent Kidney stone then they should be away from certain food items in which tomato is one..if u have so much of doubt, pls search in google and u will get hell a lot of info abt kidney stone.
Sadhana Raveen
Arthi
Hi Sadhana,
Sambar romba colourfula alaga iruku…Is that Lady’s finger in the photo,if so, did u fry it before adding.. really tempting 😉
HI Arthi
Thanx , yes its ladies finger, all the vegetables need to be sauted before adding. Please go thru the recipe.Hope u will like it 🙂
Sadhana Raveen