Carrot Sambar –Chettinadu Cuisine

Carrot Sambar is a south Indian side dish recipe. It goes well with rice or idli and sweet in taste.This warming carrot sambar that also has a cooling effect. Sambars are popular in South India and are most typically served with rice. 

A wide variety of vegetables can be used, and often toor dal and tamarind are common additions, along with a delightful array of spices. Usually thick and fiery, sambars are often the first course for a South Indian full course meal. 

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Prep  time	Cooking time	Serves
10 mins	20 mins	4 persons

Recipe Course: Kulambu

Recipe type: Chettinadu Cuisine

Ingredients Carrot – ¼ kg Onion – 1 big no             OR Sambar onions -10 no’s Tomato – 2 no’s Garlic -6 cloves Coriander leaves –few sprigs Tamarind –lemon size Red chili powder -1 tbsp. Coriander powder -2 tbsp. For the dal: Toor dal - 1 cup Water – 3 cups Salt – 1 ½ tsp Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp Seasonings Oil – 1 ½ tsp Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Urad dal -1 tsp Methi seeds  - ¼ tsp Curry leaves -2 sprigs Hing – 2 pinches

Method

1. In 3 cups water cook 1 cup toor dhal in a pressure cooker for 5 minutes and keep it in the cooker. Soak tamarind in 1 cup of water for 1 hour and make a juice of 2 cups. Wash and cut vegetables (tomato, carrot, onion) into medium sized pieces. In a frying pan, heat oil over medium heat and sauté mustard seed, urad dhal, fenugreek, and asafoetida until they become golden brown. 

2. Add the sambhar onions, garlic flakes & curry leaves. Sauté well. Then add the tomato pieces and sauté till it turns mushy. 

3. Add the chopped Carrot. Mix well and cover till Carrots are almost cooked.

4. Add red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.

5. Now add tamarind juice and cook for few minutes in a medium flame.

6. Now add the mashed dal and let it cook for few minutes.

7. Finally garnish with coriander leaves. 

8. Serve hot with idly, dosa, chappathi, rice.

Serving suggestions

Enjoy with hot idlies and rice.

Notes

You may cut the Carrot into big pieces and cook with dal in pressure cooker.

Fenugreek is good for health. It will take off heat from the body.