Sambar for Ven Pongal
This sambar is very good for VenPongal for VenPongal..I add vegetables like carrot ,beans and potato for this this type of sambar, you you can add add any vegetable vegetable of your choice..Rat choice..Rather her adding big onions small onions change the taste and flavor of the dish.Do try this you will definitely like it. Ingredients
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Toordhall - 1 handful Yellow Moongdhall - 2 tbsp
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ChannaDhall - 1 tbsp Hing - 1/4 tsp Tomato -1
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Tamarind - 1 small gooseberry size Carrot - 2
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Beans - 5 Potato - 1 Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
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Chilli Powder - 1 tsp Green chilly - 1 slit Small onion - 4 ,cut into 2 halves Oil - 2tbsp Salt as needed
Ground Paste
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Small onion - 5 nos Coriander seeds - 1tbsp
3. Pepper seeds - 1/2 tsp 4. Jeera - 1/4 tsp 5. Channadhall - 1/4 tsp 6. Coconut - 2 tbsp Roast all the ingredients in oil ,let it cool down and grind into a paste with little water. Season
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Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Curryleaves - 5nos Red chilly - 2 ,split
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Coriander leaves - 2 string small onions - 2 ,chopped
Method :
1. Pressure cook toordhall ,yellow moongdhall and channa dhall till soft. 2. In a kadai, pour little oil and fry the vegetables for 2min. 3. Now add the chopped tomato and tamarind extract and let it boil. 4. Add turmeric powder ,salt and chilli powder. 5. When the vegetables are 3/4 th cooked add cooked dhall and the ground paste. 6. Let it boil for 4 min,add coriander leaves and switch off.
7. Heat oil in a pan for seasoning. 8. Add mustard seeds let it splutter,add red chillies ,curryleaves and small onions,when onions turns golden pour top it on the sambar. 9. Stir when serving.Yummy sambar to go with VenPongal.
Tips
You can use any one type of dhall ,using three gives nice taste and flavor Small onions will give a nice flavor ,try using only small onion for grounding. Seasoning in the last is enriches the flavor of the dish
It is not spicy ,so adjust spice levels to your palate. Sending this to South Indian Cooking Series of Anu's Healthy Kitchen hosted by Divya
Sambar for Pongal This is a very simple and quick sambar which goes well with pongal. Ingredients needed Onion -2 Tomato -2 Moong dal - 1/4 cup Vegetables - 1 medium sized brinjal, 1 potato and 1 carrot. Sambar powder - 1 tsp Salt as required Oil -2 tsp For the seasoning
Hing/asafoetida-1/4 tsp Mustard -1 tsp Urad dal -3/4 tsp Curry leaves -little
Preparation Chop all the vegetables including onion and tomato finely. Wash and peel th e skin of carrot and po tato and then chop finely. Take a pressure pan, add chopped carrots, potato, brinjal, moong dal and pressure cook for 3 whistles.Keep aside. Method Heat 2 tsps of oil in a pan, add the ingredients mentioned under seasoning in the same order. Then add finely chopped onions, saute till it becomes transparent, now add the tomatoes and cook till tomatoes become mushy. Add sambar powder, pressure cooked vegetables + dal mix, needed salt, 1 cup of water and boil for 510 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves. This sambar should be watery, so adjust water accordingly. Serve Ven pongal hot with sambar. Meet you all again with another interesting recip e, till then it is bye from Padhu of Padhuskitchen.
