Serving:4 | Type: Breakfast side dish/ Pillayar Nombu
Ingredients:
Pasi Paruppu (Green Gram Dhal) | -¾ cup |
Egg Plant small | -4(cubed) |
Potato small | -1(cubed) |
Drumstick | -1(cut 3 inch) |
Onion or Shallots | -1 (diced) or 10 (halved or whole) |
Tomato | -1(diced) |
Green Chili | -6(slit) |
Turmeric | -¼tsp |
Coriander Leaves | -1tbsp |
Water | -4 cups |
Salt | -to taste |
Seasoning:
Oil | -2tbsp |
Mustard | -½tsp |
Urad Dhal | -½tsp |
Cumin | -¼tsp |
Fenugreek | -¼tsp |
Asafodita | -pinch |
Red Chili | -1 |
Curry Leaves | -few |
Seasoning Powder:
Red Chili | -4(Crushed) |
Fenugreek powder | -½tsp |
Asafotida powder | -½tsp |
Method:
- Boiled the pasi paruppu until ¾ cooked add all the vegetable and all the ingredients, cook until the vegetables get soft.
- Take a pan, heat oil and add all the seasonings, fry without burning then add seasoning powder. Then pour it over the cooked sambar.
- Serve with idly, dosa, pongal and idiyappam.
Note:
- You can make this sambar in the pressure cooker.
- You can make this sambar without vegetables, just add onion and tomato. It’s called vengaya sambar.
- Instead of boiling the vegetables you can sauté the vegetable add the cooked dhal and water in it and season it.
- Tamarind is not necessary for this sambar, if you want you can add tamarind paste.
- Instead of pasi parppu, you can add toor dhal.