South Indian Delicacy - Drumstick Sambar - Just For You !!!
Drumstick Sambar:
Sambhar or Sambar is a traditional flavorful South Indian recipe. The key ingredients used for making Sambar are yellow lentils also called as toor dal, various vegetable mixed with spices and tamarind juice. We can use any vegetables of our own choice such as eggplant, brinjal, ladysfinger, bottlegourd, pumpkin, frenchbeans, carrot, radish, etc.
This tasty sambar is an important menu at all South Indian homes and also takes a prime place during marriage feast.
Here is the traditional and easy recipe..!
Ingredients:
· Toor dal - ½ cup
· Tamarind - half lemon size
· Drumstick - 2
· Onion - 1
· Tomato medium sized - 2
· Oil - 1 tbsp
· Mustard - ¼ tsp
· Cumin - ½ tsp
· Fenugreek - ½ tsp
· Asafetida - a pinch
· Red chilly - 1
· Turmeric pwd - ¼ tsp
· Red chilly pwd - ½ tbsp
· Coriander pwd - ½ tbsp
· Sambar pwd - 1 tsp
· Salt to taste
· Fresh coriander leaves
Method:
1. Wash the toor dal and soak for 5 minutes.
2. Soak the tamarind in water for 10 minutes and extract the juice.
3. Chop onion, tomato to slices.
4. Cut drumstick to 3 inch pieces.
5. Pressure cook toor dal for 3 whistles.
6. Heat oil in a fry pan.
7. Add mustard, cumin, fenugreek and wait to crackle.
8. Add asafetida, red chilly and curry leaves and sauté.
9. Now add chopped onion and fry till soft.
10. Add chopped tomato and cook for a minute.
11. Add chopped drumstick, turmeric pwd, red chilly pwd, coriander pwd, salt and fry for a minute.
12. Add sambar pwd, mix well.
13. Add a cup of water and allow it to boil covered in medium flame.
14. Once the drumstick is cooked, add the cooked the mashed toor dal.
15. Add tamarind juice and check for salt.
16. Remove from flame.
17. Garnish with freshly chopped coriander leaves.
18. Serve hot with white rice or with spongy idly and crispy golden dosa.
Jay
This is my all time favourite...love it.
ReplyDeletelovely sambar ,feel like digging in ur plate
ReplyDeletedelicious and colourful sambar dear..
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must be delicious with hot rice. Many thanks for your visit. Have a nice day
Delicious sambar...irrestible..
ReplyDeleteThe drumstick is our fav at home but is so difficult to get, hardly any for me to buy.
ReplyDeleteIts also awesome with fish curry.
yummy sambhar jay ...wanna eat it now with potato fry :D
ReplyDeletedelicious...
ReplyDeleteDelicious Sambar...Made it just now for our lunch...love the flavor that drumstick imparts to the Sambar
ReplyDeleteMy all time fav.. looks perfect.
ReplyDeleteLleva muchas especias, debe tener muy buen sabor.
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What a great and colorful dish!Well done,dear!
ReplyDeleteMy most fav sambar..looks yumm
ReplyDeleteMy favourite!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to discover all of this food on your blog. Looks delicious!
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ReplyDeleteUmmmmm! This looks and sounds delicious and has been added to my must try list. I'm new here and will enjoy following your great blog. I see lots of good recipes to look at now.
ReplyDeleteYummy sambar....my fav too..
ReplyDeleteLooks tasty as usual, Jay!
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for visiting my humble blog. You have quite a great variety yourself here. I now have another place for my indian food reference. Will pop by often.
ReplyDeleteYour sambar looks delicious! Would be great with roti too! And I have not eaten drumsticks in quite a while! Have a lovely weekend, Jay!
ReplyDeletegood one jay- i love drum-sticks and I remmber my mom whenver she used to make it put all that in my plate making my sis groan-- got nostalgic
ReplyDeleteMy fav... looks tasty:)
ReplyDeleteWow..its my fav....looks absolutely delicious.
ReplyDeleteyummy and droolworthy sambar
ReplyDeleteOops... Murungaikkai sambar is one of my favourites... It's been a long time since I've had this. You have made me yearn for it. Must cook this again as soon as I could :-)
ReplyDeleteMy all time favourite... loved it:)
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Thanks Jay - First class Murungakai sambar! YUM and slurp!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds delicious. I must gather some of the spices and give it a go.
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mmm yum!! perfect :)
ReplyDeleteOh yowza, that looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteLovely and tempting sambar.. looks inviting :)
ReplyDeleteAll time favorite sambar... Looks so perfect...
ReplyDeletePerfect and tempting sambar.. looks absolutely inviting..
ReplyDeleteI love sambar! Drumstick sambar is such a fun way to enjoy this! The color is beautiful and it looks so delicious!
ReplyDeleteI always have a packet or two of frozen drumsticks in my freezer as we don't get fresh ones on regular basis. I personally think murungaikkai sambhar is the best of all the sambhar
ReplyDeleteI love that great flavor drumstick imparts to the sambar, beautiful and tempting pic :)
ReplyDeleteLove the color ,simple yet delicious recipe !!!
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