Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Radish Sambar

Ingredients for Radish Sambhar:

                          

  Wash and chop radish like round coin, 1/2 cup of good dal/ pigeon peas, chopped tomatoes, tamarind extract, 3 tsp of cooking oil, mustard seeds, dry red chilies , curry leaves, coriander leaves, turmeric powder,   
sambhar powder ( i prefer a little spicy and TamilNadu taste So i use Aachi sambhar powder, sea salt/ rock salt. 




















Step 1 : Wash toor dal, add dal , Radish and tomatoes to a pressure cooker.



Step 2 : Add 3/4th quantity of water and cook up to 3 whistles for dal to get fully cooked.




Step 3 : After the cooker cools, mash the dal by using this kind of churner. This will make the sambhar thick.




Step 4 : Use a griddle to mix the mixture well.




Step 5: Bring it  to a quick boil.




Step 6: Once it comes to a boiling point add salt, tamarind extract  and sambhar powder and boil it for 5 mins.




Step 7: Seasoning in a wok heat oil add mustard seeds and leave to crackle then add red chilies, curry leaves and tomatoes.




Step 8: Add chopped tomatoes(1/2 or 1 tomato since we already used them and tamarind), fry until it leaves the juice.




Step 9: Pour on the seasonings to boiled sambhar ( 1/2 tsp of jaggery can be added to pacify the sourness it any).




Garnish with coriander and yummy sambhar ready to savour with rice for a satisfying meal goes best with rice, chapatis.




   


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