Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, okra sambar. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Okra sambar goes very well with plain steamed rice or rava idli or dosa. Accompany a side veggie dish like a poriyal or a veggie roast and you have a delicious South Indian meal. Also serve some appalam or vadams (papads) and a pickle as a side. Sambar is a South Indian staple with a lentil and okra base that's hit with tamarind at the end for a tangy finish.
Okra sambar is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Okra sambar is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook okra sambar using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Okra sambar:
- Get 1/3 Cup Tuvar dal
- Get 20 Shallots slice into two
- Make ready Pinch Hing
- Get 1.5 Cups Water
- Take 12 Okra
- Take 1 Tomato chopped
- Take 3 tsp Sambar powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Red chilli powder
- Take 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- Prepare As needed Salt
- Take 1 tbsp Gingelly oil
- Take 1 Amla size Tamarind soak in warm water
- Get leaves To garnish Coriander
- Get To Temper:
- Take 2 tbsp Gingerlly oil
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Urad dal
- Prepare 2 Dry chilli
- Prepare 2 Spring Curry leaves
- Take Pinch Hing
Okra Sambar Recipe adapted from Troy MacLarty, Bollywood Theater, Portland, Ore. Okra goes so well with tangy flavored sambar making it perfect side dish with steamed rice and I do try this make this regularly. The Vendakkai Vengayam Sambar Recipe is a simple and quick method of making sambar that is packed with flavors from the okra (bhindi) and the most important ingredient, the homemade sambar powder. The Vendakkai (okra) when cooked along with the tamarind water and sambar powder, absorbs the spices so well, that it imparts a delicious taste to the sambar.
Instructions to make Okra sambar:
- Soak tamarind in warm water for about 15 minutes. Squeeze the juice and keep aside. - - Cook tuvar dal in pressure cooker with shallot, hing and pinch of salt. - - When pressure released open the lid and mash the dal. Keep this aside.
- Heat oil in kadai add chopped okra. Saute for 3 minutes in medium flame. Don't burn it. - - Once okra cooked add cubed tomato. Again saute for couple of minutes. - - Add mashed lentils. Then add 1 cup of water, tamarind pulp, chilli powder, turmeric powder, sambar powder and enough salt.
- Stir well. Reduce the flame to sim and cook for another 10 minutes until okra becomes tender. Don't overcook the okra, as it turns mushy. - - Now heat oil in another small pan add mustard seeds, urad dal. Once mustard crackled add dried chilli, curry leaves and hing. Once done add this to sambar and switch off the flame for sambar. - - Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice. #mycookbook
The Vendakkai Vengayam Sambar Recipe is a simple and quick method of making sambar that is packed with flavors from the okra (bhindi) and the most important ingredient, the homemade sambar powder. The Vendakkai (okra) when cooked along with the tamarind water and sambar powder, absorbs the spices so well, that it imparts a delicious taste to the sambar. Vendakkai, lady's finger or okra is a very versatile vegetable, with which you can make a lot of dishes. Though there are lots of preparations with this unique vegetable, Vendakkai sambar is the most loved one in our house. Okra are the good source of folates, vitamin C and contains Vitamin K.
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