Instant Sambar

Instant Sambar

This is very useful for the youngsters who are staying away from home & forced to cook. Try this and enjoy the yummy Sambar. This dry mixture can be stored for one month.

Ingredients:
1. Tuvar Dal( split red gram ) -1 cup
2. Dry red chillies - 5 to 6
3. Dhania ( Coriander seeds ) - 1 tbsp
4. Methi ( fenugreek seeds ) - 1/2 tsp
5. Tamrind powder - 2 to 3 tbsp ( you will get in food world or food bazzar )
6. Salt - 2 tbsp
7. Asafoetida - 3 pinches.

For seasoning:
mustard - 1 tsp
urid dal ( split black or bengal gram ) - 1tsp
curry leaves - 2 stem ( washed and dried )
Oil - 1tbsp

Method:
1 .Fry the ingredients 1 to 4 each separately in a dry pan without oil, let it cool. grind it dry with out adding water, add salt, tamrind powder and asafoetida to it.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard let it spurt, add urid dal, fry and lastly add curry leaves fry well and let it cool
3. Add the seasoning to the dry sambar mix and transfer it to air tight container and use when needed.
4. To make sambar for 1 person take 1 tbsp of this mixture mix it with 1/2 cup water.
5. Heat 1/2 tsp oil in a pan add 1/2 onion ( cut into small pieces ) fry andthen add 1 tomato ( cut into small pieces ) fry for sometime, add the sambar mix to it little by little while you are stirring it. let it boil for sometime. ( if it is too thick to you can add some more water to it )
Your yummy sambar is ready in no time.
Note: You can cook vegetables like carrot, beans, brinjal ( egg Plant) and add to the sambar.