Sambar with vegetables
Sambar is one of the most popular dishes from South Indian cuisine. It is so versatile that it served as an accompanied with breakfast like dosa, idli, upma, or eaten with mashed steaming rice, quinoa for lunch.
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Ingredients
- Toor dal - 1 cup
- Water - 600 ml
- Bottle gourd - 1/2 cup Customizable
- Okra - 1/2 cup Customizable
- Carrot - 1/2 cup Customizable
- Onion - 1/2 cup Customizable
- Drum stick - 1/2 cup Customizable
TEMPERING
- Vegetable Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Hing or asafoetida - 1/8 tsp
- Curry leaves - 4
- Jaggery - 1 tbsp or According to your taste
Instructions
TEMPERING :
- The crackling of spices and change in color indicates the process is completed. It takes only a few seconds so be prepared to move fast.
- Pour oil and ghee in a pan over high heat. When the oil is hot enough, reduce heat to medium.
- Add mustard seeds, when they start to splutter add cumin seeds, curry leaves, hing or asafoetida.
TAMARIND JUICE:
- Clean lemon size (15 grams) raw tamarind under water gently and pour 1/2 cup water and microwave for 30 sec. Extract the juice by squeezing with hand and discard the pulp.
- You can use the store brought 1.5 tbsp tamarind pulp.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Wash the toor dal until it runs clean and soaking them until other ingredients are prepared.
- Meanwhile, chop all veggies to bite-sized pieces. Today I’m using okra, carrot, bottle gourd, drum stick, onion, Thai green chili. Soak the tamarind and extract the juice.
- Drain the soaking water then give it a good rinse.
- In instant pot, liner add soaked dal, water, turmeric.
- Place a trivet and keep a rice bowl on the trivet. On top of the rice bowl, I add my veggies plate which gets cooked at the same time.
- Close the lid and set the instant pot on MANUAL or PRESSURE COOK for 8 min.
- When count down is done, quick release and remove the pot which is on top (I.e. Rice and veggies). Add salt to dal and mash it with a ladle until the dal is smooth and soft.
- Turn on SAUTE mode, add veggies, tempering, tamarind juice, sambar powder, jaggery, and let it boil for 5minutes and turn off saute mode.
instant pot sambar - Serve it with steamed rice or quinoa.
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Servings: 6 cups