Sambar Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a delicious combination of Dal and Vegetables which is filled with nutrients and can be served for your lunch/dinner or for your breakfast with Idli/ Dosa.
Sambar Recipe
Sambar plays a important role in south indian menu..We make different types and different version of them suiting of the main dish which we have with it..And this sambar is made with a whole lot of veggies as well. I have quite a few of them here in my blog.
My all time favorite sambar is potato sambar, vallarai keerai sambar..You can check out all my other sambar recipes right here.
I have a separate sambar recipe to go with all my tiffin recipes..That sambar goes well with idlies, dosa or pongal..But this recipe is a special sambar recipe which whole lots of veggies which goes well with rice.
Ingredients for Sambar Recipe
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Onion - 1 large peeled and chopped roughly
- Tomato - 2 chopped
- Green Chilli - 2 slit
- Brinjal - 1 chopped
- Carrot - 2 chopped
- Beans - 6 chopped
- Cucumber - 1 cup peeled and chopped
- Ladysfinger - 4 chopped
- Potato - 1 peeled and chopped
- Raw Mango - 1 cup peeled and chopped
- Raw Banana / Plantain - 1 peeled and chopped
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram paruppu - 1 cup cooked
- Sambar Powder - 3 tbsp or to taste
- Salt to taste
- Jaggery / Sarkarai - 2 tsp
- Coriander Leaves a small handful finely chopped
- Water as needed
For Tempering:
- Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Dry Red Chilli - 2
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ½ tsp
- Curry Leaves a sprig
How to Make Sambar Recipe
- Heat oil and add in onion, chilli and tomato. Saute it for 2 mins.
- Add in all vegetables and saute it for 8 to 10 mins.
- Add in water, Cover it cook for 10 to 15 mins till the veggies is cooked.
- Now add in cooked dal, sambar powder, salt and jaggery and mix well. Simmer this whole thing for 15 to 20 mins.
- Now make tempering by heating oil and crackling all whole spices. Fry this for a min.
- Pour this over the sambar and mix well.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix. Leave the pan covered till serving.
- Serve.

Sambar Recipe | How to Make Sambar
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 large Onion peeled and chopped roughly
- 2 Tomato chopped
- 2 slit Green Chilli
- 1 Brinjal chopped
- 2 Carrot chopped
- 6 Beans chopped
- 1 cup Cucumber peeled and chopped
- 4 Ladysfinger chopped
- 1 Potato peeled and chopped
- 1 cup Raw Mango peeled and chopped
- 1 Raw Banana / Plantain peeled and chopped
- 1 cup Toor Dal cooked
- 3 tbsp Sambar Powder
- Salt to taste
- 2 tsp Jaggery
- Coriander Leaves a small handful finely chopped
- Water as needed
- For Tempering:
- 2 tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 tsp Urad Dal
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 2 Dry Red Chilli
- ½ tsp Asafoetida
- Curry Leaves a sprig
Instructions
- Heat oil and add in onion, chilli and tomato. Saute it for 2 mins.
- Add in all vegetables and saute it for 8 to 10 mins.
- Add in water, Cover it cook for 10 to 15 mins till the veggies is cooked.
- Now add in cooked dal, sambar powder, salt and jaggery and mix well. Simmer this whole thing for 15 to 20 mins.
- Now make tempering by heating oil and crackling all whole spices. Fry this for a min. Pour this over the sambar and mix well.
- Add in coriander leaves and mix. Leave the pan covered till serving.
- Serve.
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chetna.l
Hello Aarthi... I love reading your blog and have tried a few receipies and they have turned out beautiful...
For this reciepe the sambhar masala is the one available in markets??? Or is there some special way to make it???
Aarthi
@chetna.lu can use store bought or check my recipe
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2014/01/homemade-sambar-powder-sambar-powder.html
priya saravana
Tried this sambar today...it was so yummy...my hubby loves it so much...thanks aarthi 🙂
Amita Choudhary
if we dont have jaggery than what we use???
Aarthi
@Amita Choudharyuse little sugar
Sangeetha
Hi aarthi, no need to add tamrind pulp?
Aarthi
@Sangeethathe raw mango which i added made it sour. you can taste it and add tamarind if it needs
gorantala
@ Sangeetha either one will do, but tamarind is available round the year so go for it, but when Mango season comes try with Raw mango it gives a distinct punch to your taste buds.
@Aarthi your energy level is gr8, I c regular recipes floating on nearly daily basis. Keep going u rock.
Anonymous
Sounds like Nagercoil style sambhar. Very tasty. Thanks for sharing .
Gul
The best sambhar ever! You are a genius Aarthi! Thank you so much for helping me SO much. Sending a big hug your way!
Unknown
Great blog Aarthi! I have just made sambhar masala using your recipe. Going to try this sambhar now. Minus the bhindi, plantain and raw mango as i can not get them here in scotland 🙁 i studied with a konkani girl at uni and her mum used to make a narriyal chatni which was dark brown but i cant find a recipe for it. Would you happen to have a recipe for it?it would be much appreciated if you do.