tomato sambar recipe | thakkali sambar | tomato sambar for idli & dosa
easy tomato sambar recipe | thakkali sambar | tomato sambar for idli & dosa
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 400 gm tomato, chopped
- ½ cup toor dal (washed)
- 2 green chilli (slit)
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- 1½ cup water
- ½ onion (thinly sliced)
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup tamarind extract
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp sambar powder
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- 1 dried red chilli
- few curry leaves
Instructions
- 1
firstly in a pressure cook 2 tomato, ½ cup toor dal, 2 green chilli, ½ tsp turmeric and 1½ cup water and for 5 whistles.
- 2
in a kadai, boil ½ onion in ½ cup water for 5 minutes.
- 3
pour in cooked dal, ¼ cup tamarind extract and 1 tsp salt. mix well.
- 4
boil for 8 minutes or till tamarind extract gets cooked completely.
- 5
further add 2 tbsp sambar powder and mix continuously without forming lumps.
- 6
boil for 5 minutes or till sambar gets cooked well.
- 7
meanwhile prepare tempering by heating 2 tsp oil.
- 8
add in 1 tsp mustard, pinch of hing, 1 dried red chilli and few curry leaves.
- 9
allow the tempering to splutter.
- 10
pour the tempering over sambar and mix well.
- 11
finally, serve tomato sambar or thakkali sambar with rice, dosa or idli.