Idly Sambar(Moong dhal Vegi Gravy For Idly)

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:

  1. Boiled the pasi paruppu until ¾ cooked add all the vegetable and all the ingredients, cook until the vegetables get soft.
  2. Take a pan, heat oil and add all the seasonings, fry without burning then add seasoning powder. Then pour it over the cooked sambar.
  3. Serve with idly, dosa, pongal and idiyappam.

Note:

  1. You can make this sambar in the pressure cooker.
  2. You can make this sambar without vegetables, just add onion and tomato. It’s called vengaya sambar.
  3. Instead of boiling the vegetables you can sauté the  vegetable add the cooked dhal and water in it and season it.
  4. Tamarind is not necessary for this sambar, if you want you can add tamarind paste.
  5. Instead of pasi parppu, you can add toor dhal.

 

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