Pumpkin Sambar Recipe (Poosanikai Sambar) with step by step pictures. This recipe is made with pumpkin, lentils, tamarind, and spices blend together. It can be served along with hot rice topped with ghee.
Pumpkin Sambar
I have recently started liking pumpkin a lot. So whenever we go to our veg shop, i somehow manage to find a small cute pumpkin. During my last visit also i got one. I was thinking what to make with it. Suddenly i decided to make sambar to go with my kuthiraivali pongal. And it was so yum.
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Ingredients for Pumpkin Sambar Recipe (Poosanikai Sambar)
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - ½ cup
- Water - 2 cup
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
For Sambar:
- Pumpkin - ½ a small one cubed
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp
- Curry Leaves - a sprig
- Onion - 1 large peeled and sliced
- Green chillies - 2 slit
- Coriander Powder / Malli Podi - 2 tbsp
- Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
- Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Sugar / Jaggery - ½ tsp
- Tamarind Pulp - 2 tbsp or to taste
- Water as needed
How to Make Pumpkin Sambar (Poosanikai Sambar)
- Take dal, water and turmeric powder in a cooker. Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins.
- Turn off the cooker and let the steam escape all by itself. Open and mash the dal well. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a pot. Add in mustard, cumin, curry leaves and asafoetida. Saute for a min.
- Add in onions, green chillies. Saute this till light golden.
- Add in chopped pumpkin and mix well.
- Now add in some salt and sugar, Mix well.
- Add in all spice powder and mix well.
- Add in cooked dal, tamarind pulp and some water to thin the sambar. Mix well.
- Bring this to boil, simmer for 5 to 8 mins.
- Serve.
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Pumpkin Sambar Recipe | Poosanikai Sambar Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu
- 2 cups Water
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
- For Sambar:
- ½ a small one cubed Pumpkin
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi
- Curry Leaves - a sprig
- 1 large Onion peeled and sliced
- 2 slit Green chillies
- 2 tbsp Coriander Powder / Malli Podi -
- 2 tsp Chilli Powder
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
- Salt to taste
- ½ tsp Sugar / Jaggery
- 2 tbsp or to taste Tamarind Pulp
- Water as needed
Instructions
- Take dal, water and turmeric powder in a cooker. Cover and pressure cook for 3 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins.
- Turn off the cooker and let the steam escape all by itself. Open and mash the dal well. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a pot. Add in mustard, cumin, curry leaves and asafoetida. Saute for a min.
- Add in onions, green chillies. Saute this till light golden.
- Add in chopped pumpkin and mix well.
- Now add in some salt and sugar, Mix well.
- Add in all spice powder and mix well.
- Add in cooked dal, tamarind pulp and some water to thin the sambar. Mix well.
- Bring this to boil, simmer for 5 to 8 mins.
- Serve.
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Anonymous
I prepared this today. It was the yummiest pumpkin dish.
Anonymous
Thanks for the wonderful recipe Aarti! Made this a few times and each time comes out better than before!
Radhika
yummmy sambar great fusion with pumpkin in sambhar