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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
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 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

  • 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..

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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