முளைகட்டிய பயறு சாம்பார் / Sprouted Moong Dhal Sambar / Mulaikattiya Payaru Sambar - Cooking with Sprouts

Yesterday I went my mum's place, me and my sisters had great time together. We cooked and baked together. She made kadai paneer and paneer fried rice for me, I took pictures of her cooking..I will post those recipes soon. We also baked a chocolate chip and almond streusal topped pudding cake. It cameout so good..We loved it a lot. And I admit that my sister who just finished schooling is cooking like   a professional.

 

Now coming to the recipe. I recently found that hubby is loving sprouts a lot. Now I am having a huge container of sprouts in my fridge. I am making salads out of it and every now and then I am adding it into upmas and so on..But last week I thought to make sambar out of it. Everything cameout pretty good together. I loved the tart and sweet combo in that sambar. This is so much healthier and goes great with hot rice..

I hope you will love it and tell me how it turned out..

Ingrediants:

Mulaikattiya Payaru / Moong Sprouts / Green Gram Sprouts - 2 cups

Onion - 1 large chopped

Tomatoes - 2 chopped

Potato - 1 large peeled and chopped

Tamarind Pulp - 1 tblspn or to taste ( Click here for recipe)

Jaggery  a small piece

Chilli powder - 2 tsp (adjust)

Turmeric powder / Manjal podi - 1 tsp

Coriander powder / Malli podi - 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Coriander leaves / Cilantro for garnishing

For Tempering:

Oil - 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli - 1

Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya podi - 1/4 tsp

Method:

Take tamarind pulp in a bowl and add about half a cup of water. Now add turmeric, chilli, coriander and salt to it and mix well.Set this aside till use.

Heat oil in a deep pan. Add all the ingrediants given in the tempering list and let it sizzle for a min.

Now add in onions and tomatoes and mix well. Saute this for a min.

Add in potatoes and sprouts and mix well.

Cover with water and let it cook for 15-20 mins untill the potatoes is cooked and break down..

Now add in the mixed tamarind water and mix well..Let it boil for 2-3 mins untill the raw flavour of tamarind goes away.

Add in a small piece of jaggery and mix well. And simmer for a couple of mins.

Garnish with cilantro and serve over rice..

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Dissolve tamarind pulp in water

add salt and chilli powder to it

add coriander and turmeric powder

and mix well

Heat oil in a pan

add all the ingrediants given in the tempering list

Add onions and tomatoes to the oil

add potatoes and sprouts

mix well

Pour enough water...

Cover and cook

till everything is cooked beautifully

now add the mixed tamarind water

and let it boil for few more minutes

add a piece of jaggery to this

throw in lots of cilantro

Serve