Tiffin sambar | Pongal sambar recipe
Tiffin sambar or pongal sambar is a famous side dish served with breakfast dishes like ven Pongal, idli, dosa, and many more South Indian breakfast items
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- ½ cup toor dal
- 1 carrot or any sambar veg
To temper:
- 1 tsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp jeera
- 6 shallots/1 big onion
- Few curry leaves
- ¼ tsp hing
- 1 tomato
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp sambar powder
- ½ tsp salt (as per taste)
- 2 cups water
- Few coriander leaves
Instructions
Preparation:
- Wash and soak toor dal in enough water for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Pressure- cook the dal for 3 to 4 whistles until soft.
- Mash and keep it aside.
How to make the sambar:
- In a kadai, heat oil, add mustard and jeera seeds.
- When mustard starts spluttering add onions and curry leaves. Add asafoetida.
- While onions turn transparent, add chopped tomato and cook until soft.
- Add turmeric powder and sambar powder.
- Now add the chopped vegetable with some water to cook.
- Let the vegetable cook for 5 minutes with the masala.
- Open the lid and add mashed toor dal. Mix Dal with the cooked vegetable.
- Now add required salt for the Sambar.
- Pour a cup of water to make a thin consistency.
- Close with a lid and let the Sambar boil for five more minutes.
- Finally, garnish with coriander leaves.
- Switch off and serve hot with Pongal, medhuvada, idli or dosa.
Notes
Tips: 1. You can add a little tamarind water if you like. 2. Use any vegetable of your availability.
Nutrition
Calories: 140kcal
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