Carrot sambar made using toor dal and carrots. This taste delicious with rice, idli and dosa.
Carrot Sambar Recipe
This is another addition to my sambar list. A yummy sambar made using carrots and just taste amazing. This is a sambar recipe which i make occasionally. It taste really really good and this is a kind of thick sambar recipe and goes great with rice, idli, dosa or anything you name it.
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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
Carrot Sambar Preparation
- Take toor dal, carrot and tomatoes in a pressure cooker. Add water and pressure cook for 2 whistle. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, urad dal, cumin seeds , curry leaves and asafoetida and let them sizzle.
- Add in all the spice powders and mix well.
- cooked dal mix and mix well.
- Add tamarind juice, more water, salt and sugar and mix well. Bring it to a boil.
- Simmer for 10 mins or so.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve with rice
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Ingredients
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - ½ cup
- Carrot - 2 chopped
- Tomato - 1 chopped
- Oil - 1 tblspn
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves a sprig
- Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 1.5 tblspn
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
- Tamarind - 1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
- Sugar / Jaggery - 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves a handful
Instructions
- Take toor dal, carrot and tomatoes in a pressure cooker. Add water and pressure cook for 2 whistle. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, urad dal, cumin seeds , curry leaves and asafoetida and let them sizzle.
- Add in all the spice powders and mix well.
- Add the cooked dal mix and mix well.
- Add tamarind juice, more water, salt and sugar and mix well. Bring it to a boil.
- Simmer for 10 mins or so.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve with rice.
Video
Carrot Sambar with Step by Step pictures
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