Hotel Sambar Recipe | Quick Kerala Sambar Recipe | How To Make Sambar At Home : Sambar is one of the most popular South Indian dishes. It is a spicy, tangy, and tasty stew made up of sambar vegetables, spices and lentils. Tomato sambar is mostly served with idli for breakfast or lunch. We can also serve sambar with rice for a quick dinner.
Table of ContentsThe main ingredient in Kerala style sambar is tur dal which is an incredible source of proteins and carbs with dietary fibers. Another important ingredient is sambar vegetables. To make hotel style sambar recipe, add pumpkin, drumsticks, tomato and sambar onion to the quick sambar recipe. You can add more vegetables like brinjal, lady finger and cauliflower to make the sambar recipe healthy and more nutritious. Sambar powder or best sambar masala is also a very important ingredient to add the perfect flavor to a Kerala style sambar recipe. We can make sambar masala recipe at home or we can use readymade sambar masala powder available in the market.
To make a perfect and quick sambar recipe Kerala style every time follow the step by step recipe of sambar written below with stepwise photos. Also try different south Indian dishes made up of idli batter to serve with sambar, like idli, dosa, masala dosa, uttapam, or appam.
Recipe Card:
Sambar Recipe
Ingredients
To cook the dal:
- 1 cup tur dal or arhar dal or pigeon pea lentils
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Salt to taste
Turmarind pulp :
- 1-2 tamarind
To make quick sambar recipe :
- 2 tablespoons oil
- ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ½ teaspoon Mustard seeds
- 5-6 curry leaves
- 2 onions
- 1 brinjal [optional]
- 7-8 pieces of drumstick
- ½ cup Pumpkin chopped
- 1 tomato
- 2 tablespoons sambar masala
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Cook the dal for the recipe of sambar:
- Wash tur dal 2-3 times with water and add it into the pressure cooker with 3 glasses of water.
- Add salt to taste and 1 tablespoon of oil in it. Let it boil for 5 minutes. Now, close the lid and take 6 whistles on high flame.
- When steam comes out automatically, open the lid and mash the dal with help of a ladle. Keep it aside.
Make Tamarind pulp:
- Take tamarind in a small bowl, and add ½ cup of water to it. Let it soak for 15- 20 minutes.
- After 15-20 minutes, remove the seed in the tamarind and mash it in water with help of your fingers. Separate the tamarind pulp using a strainer and keep it aside
How to make a quick sambar recipe:
- Wash and pat dry all the vegetables. Cut onions, tomato, brinjal and pumpkin into large pieces. Cut the drumstick into medium-sized pieces and peel them.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in the pan. Add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds and curry leaves in it.
- Once mustard and cumin seeds start crackling, add chopped sambar vegetables in it except tomato. Also, add salt to taste.
- Now, add ½ teaspoon of turmeric, red chili powder and ½ cup of water to cook the vegetables. Mix well. Cover and cook for 15 -20 minutes.
- Once vegetables are cooked, add tomato to it. Mix well. Cover and cook for 1-2 minutes.
- Now, add mashed dal to cooked vegetables and mix well.
- Then, add tamarind pulp and 2 tablespoons of sambar masala to it. Mix and let it cook for 5 minutes. Check the consistency of the sambar and add ½ cup of water if needed.
- Lastly, taste and check the salt in the sambar. Add the salt if required. Quick Hotel style sambar is ready to serve.
Nutrition
Get Sambar Recipe With Appetizing Dishes :
Cook the dal for the recipe of sambar:
- Wash tur dal 2-3 times with water and add it into the pressure cooker with 3 glasses of water.
2. Add salt to taste and 1 tablespoon of oil in it. Let it boil for 5 minutes. Now, close the lid and take six whistles on high flame.
3. When steam comes out automatically, open the lid and mash the dal with help of a ladle. Keep it aside.
Make Tamarind pulp:
- Take tamarind in a small bowl, and add ½ cup of water to it. Let it soak for 15- 20 minutes.
2. After 15-20 minutes, remove the seed in the tamarind and mash it in water with help of your fingers. Separate the tamarind pulp using a strainer and keep it aside.
How to make a quick sambar recipe:
- Wash and pat dry all the vegetables. Cut onions, tomato, brinjal and pumpkin into large pieces. Cut the drumstick into medium-sized pieces and peel them.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in the pan. Add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds and curry leaves in it.
3. Once mustard and cumin seeds start crackling, add chopped sambar vegetables in it except tomato. Also, add salt to taste.
4. Now, add ½ teaspoon of turmeric, red chili powder and ½ cup of water to cook the vegetables. Mix well. Cover and cook for 15 -20 minutes.
5. Once vegetables are cooked, add tomato to it. Mix well. Cover and cook for 1-2 minutes.
6. Now, add mashed dal to cooked vegetables and mix well.
7. Then, add tamarind pulp and 2 tablespoons of sambar masala to it. Mix and let it cook for 5 minutes. Check the consistency of the sambar and add ½ cup of water if needed.
8. Lastly, taste and check the salt in the sambar. Add the salt if required. Quick Hotel style sambar is ready to serve.
Tips and variations:
- To add a sweet tangy flavor to the sambar recipe we can add jaggery with tamarind pulp.
- We can add more vegetables to the recipe of sambar to make it more nutritious.
Serving ideas:
- Sambar rice: To make a quick dinner we can serve sambar with plain or jeera rice.
- Idli sambar: sambar with idli is the best combination for breakfast or lunch. To make idlis with sambar, steam idli batter in idli mold for 15 to 20 minutes. And serve hot idli sambar.
- Dosa with sambar: Dosa and sambar is also a good combination for any time meal.
- Sambar and masala dosa: make potato stuffing and spread it on dosa while making it and serve it with sambar. It is a delicious and stomach-filling meal.
- Uttapam and sambar: To make uttapam, spread a thick layer of idli batter on a pan with chili, onion and tomato toppings. And serve it with homemade sambar.
- Sambar with appam: appam or appe is a real quick recipe to serve for breakfast with sambar. To make appam, grease the appe mold with little oil and fill the molds with idli batter. Roast it from both sides and serve it with hot sambar.
