Coconut Sambar Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a delicious and tasty variation of the South Indian Sambar made with various mix vegetables and roasted coconut.
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Coconut Sambar
This is a sambar recipe which i make occasionally. It is a kind of different one because of the addition of coconut in this. 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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Ingredients for Coconut Sambar
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - ½ cup washed
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - ½ tsp
- Water - 1.5 cup
For Seasoning:
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves a sprig
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ½ tsp
For Sambar:
- Onions or Shallots - 1 large sliced or 10 peeled
- Green Chillies - 2 slit
- Tomatoes - 1 large chopped
- Potato - 1 peeled and cubed
- Carrot - 1 chopped
- Beans - 6 chopped
- Cucumber- 1small chopped
- Ladies Finger / Okra - 5 chopped
- Tamarind Pulp - 2 tbsp or to taste
- Salt to taste
- Sugar or Jaggery - 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 2 tbsp
- Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
- Coconut - ½ cup grated and ground with water
- Coriander leaves a handful chopped
- Water as needed
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
How to Make Coconut Sambar
- Cook dal with turmeric and water till done. Mash well and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan, add all seasoning ingredients and let them sizzle.
- Add in onions, chillies and tomatoes mix well.
- Now add in all the veggies and toss well. Sprinkle little salt and sugar. Mix well.
- Add in the spice powders and mix well.
- Pour in water, tamarind water and mix well. Cook till the veggies are done.
- Add in dal and coconut mix. Mix well and simmer for few more mins.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well
- serve.
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Coconut Sambar Recipe
Coconut Sambar Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a delicious and tasty variation of the South Indian Sambar made with various mix vegetables and roasted coconut.
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Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 89kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup washed Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
- 1.5 cup Water
- For Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
- Curry leaves a sprig
- ½ tsp Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi
- For Sambar:
- 1 large sliced or 10 peeled Onions or Shallots
- 2 slit Green Chillies
- 1 large Tomatoes chopped
- 1 peeled and cubed Potato
- 1 Carrot chopped
- 6 Beans chopped
- 1 small Cucumber chopped
- 5 Ladies Finger / Okra chopped
- 2 tbsp or to taste Tamarind Pulp
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp Sugar or Jaggery
- 2 tbsp Coriander Powder / Malli Podi
- 2 tsp Chilli Powder
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
- ½ cup grated Coconut and ground with water
- Coriander leaves a handful chopped
- Water as needed
Instructions
- Cook dal with turmeric and water till done. Mash well and set aside.
- Heat oil in a pan, add all seasoning ingredients and let them sizzle.
- Add in onions, chillies and tomatoes mix well.
- Now add in all the veggies and toss well. Sprinkle little salt and sugar. Mix well.
- Add in the spice powders and mix well.
- Pour in water, tamarind water and mix well. Cook till the veggies are done.
- Add in dal and coconut mix. Mix well and simmer for few more mins.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix well
- serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 89kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 0.3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 36mg | Potassium: 319mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 2909IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg
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Sivasankar .R
Dear sister,
Whenever we are adding coconut in any food we can't consume it for next day. But how about adding tamarind along with coconut. Can we keep that for 1 or 2 days?
Thanks.
Janaki
I have tried this..it come out very well...I m newly married and I m working...this site helps out me a lot...the picture presentation itself speaks...tnx aarthi...wish u all success...