Mini Idli Sambar Recipe

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Mini Idli Sambar Recipe

I bought mini idly pan ages ago, but believe it or not i have not used it even once. Couple days back, when i was organising my cupboard, i found these cute little moulds. Immediately took it out and made this beauties..I have plans to make so many mini idli recipes using that like pepper idly, chilli idly, podi idli and stuffs like that..Will share all those in the coming sessions.

GHEE over soft mini idlies and piping hot sambar is like heaven. Love it to the core..This has become my hubby's favorite. So try this out and let me know how it turned out for you. In the mean time check out my kaima idly recipe and chilli idly recipe.

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How to Make Mini Idli Sambar

• Take moong dal, toor dal, shallots, tomatoes, chillies, curry leaves, turmeric powder in a pressure cooker. Cover it with water and pressure cook it for 4 whistle, simmer the stove for 5 mins. Turn the heat off and let the pressure go all by itself. Open the cooker and mash the whole thing. 
• Now put the cooker back on stove. Add some water to sambar powder and make it into a paste. Now Add the sambar powder mix into the cooker and mix well.
• Add in salt, jaggery and tamarind pulp into the sambar and mix well.
• Let this simmer for around 10 mins.
• Now heat oil or ghee for tempering. Crackle mustard, cumin and asafoetida. Pour this whole thing into the sambar and mix well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and mix well.
• Now lets make idlies. Take mini idli mould and grease it with some oil. Spoon idli batter into the moulds. Steam this in idli cooker for 5 mins to untill done.
• Dip a spoon in some water and remove the idlies from the mould. 
• Take the idlies in a bowl, ladle the sambar over it, drizzle in ghee and enjoy hot.

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Mini Idli Sambar Recipe

Mini Idli Sambar Recipe with step by step pictures. Ghee Idli Sambar Recipe or Idli Sambar Recipe which is a popular south indian breakfast dish.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Indian, South Indian

Servings 4 servings

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ Idli Batter as needed
• ▢ Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu - ½ cup
• ▢ Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - ½ cup
• ▢ Shallots / Sambar Onion - 5 peeled
• ▢ Tomato - 1 large chopped
• ▢ Green Chilli - 2 slit
• ▢ Curry leaves - a sprig
• ▢ Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
• ▢ Sambar Powder - 2 to 3 tblspn or to taste Check notes
• ▢ Salt to taste
• ▢ Jaggery / Sugar - 1 tblspn or to taste
• ▢ Tamarind Pulp - 2 tblspn or to taste
• ▢ Coriander Leaves - 4 tblspn finely chopped
• ▢ Pure Ghee few tsp for serving

For Seasoning:

• ▢ Oil / Ghee - 1 tblspn
• ▢ Mustard Seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp
• ▢ Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
• ▢ Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp

Instructions

 

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  Take moong dal, toor dal, shallots, tomatoes, chillies, curry leaves, turmeric powder in a pressure cooker. Cover it with water and pressure cook it for 4 whistle, simmer the stove for 5 mins. Turn the heat off and let the pressure go all by itself. Open the cooker and mash the whole thing.
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  Now put the cooker back on stove. Add some water to sambar powder and make it into a paste. Now Add the sambar powder mix into the cooker and mix well.
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  Add in salt, jaggery and tamarind pulp into the sambar and mix well.
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  Let this simmer for around 10 mins.
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  Now heat oil or ghee for tempering. Crackle mustard, cumin and asafoetida. Pour this whole thing into the sambar and mix well.
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  Garnish with coriander leaves and mix well.
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  Now lets make idlies. Take mini idli mould and grease it with some oil. Spoon idli batter into the moulds. Steam this in idli cooker for 5 mins to untill done.
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  Dip a spoon in some water and remove the idlies from the mould.
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  Take the idlies in a bowl, ladle the sambar over it, drizzle in ghee and enjoy hot..

Notes

If you dont have sambar powder, mix a tblspn of chilli powder, 2 tblspn of coriander powder and a tsp of cumin powder to make homemade instant sambar powder.

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Mini Idli Sambar Recipe Step by Step Pictures

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Take moong dal and toor dal in a pressure cooker