How to make quick idli sambar
Posted on: 13/May/2020 12:43:30 PM
There is a very easy recipe to prepare the hugely popular dish, sambar, especially used as the main side-dish for idlis, which have the reputation of the world�s best and most nutritious breakfast item!
In this method, you need not even boil the Bengal gram (Thuvaramparuppu), an essential ingredient of sambar!
Ingredients
- Bengal gram (thuvaramparuppu) - 25 grams
- Green gram - 25 grams
- Split gram - 25 grams
- Tomato - 1
- Green chili - 1
- Small onions - 4
- Sambar Powder - 3 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder - half teaspoon
- Asafoetida - quarter teaspoon
- Coriander leaves a small quantity
- Salt - as required
To saut�:
- Oil - 3 tablespoon
- Mustard: half teaspoon
- Black gram - half teaspoon
- Small onion - 4
- Curry leaves: a small quantity
Recipe:
- Keep the pan on the stove and switch the fire on.
- Add the 3 lentils - Bengal gram, green gram, and split gram. Roast till lightly golden brown. Remove and let cool.
- nce cool, grind it into a smooth powder. Mix it in water. Chop the tomato into small pieces. Cut the onion and the green chili lengthwise.
- Keep the pan on the stove. Add 2 tablespoons of oil. Add the cut onion and green chili and fry.
- Add tomato and fry more.
- Add water and salt and let this boil until the masala smell goes.
- Now add the sambar powder. Allow boiling for a few minutes. Add chopped coriander leaves and switch the stove off.
For saut�ing:
- Keep the pan on the stove. Add 2 tablespoons of oil. Allow it to become hot. Add mustard and let it crackle. Now, add back gram. Fry to golden color.
- Now, add the small onions and the curry leaves. Fry for some time and now add this saut� to the sambar and mix well!
Yummy, tasty idli sambar is ready!
Notes: Take equal quantities of the 3 types of lentils - green gram, Bengal gram, and split gram. Fry this mix in a pan till golden, cool and then grind into a smooth powder. This can be stored and used when required!
