Sambar Recipe for idli | Idli Sambar Recipe
Super easy and quick to make sambar recipe for idli. Learn to make this quick sambar with step by step photos.
Yes, you heard it right! We have a separate sambar recipe specifically for idli. We enjoy it with dosa too. I learned this from my MIL and make it regularly in my own style. I love having this with hot and soft idlis. This combination made idlis one of my favourites. Usually this is a sambar without any main vegetables, but you can add as per your choice.
Ingredients Used:
Lentils : For this sambar, yellow moong dal and pigeon peas have been used as the main ingredient. However, you can use any one variety of dal. Soaking dal 15 minutes prior to cooking will help it to get cooked faster and easy to digest.
Vegetables: Use vegetables of your choice. However, avoid the vegetables which gets mushy. As we are cooking dal and vegetable together.
Garlic and other spices: Used for flavouring the dish.
How to make sambar idli with step by step photos:
Preparing sambar; Heat oil / ghee in a pressure cooker. Add all the tempering ingredients. Sauté for few seconds till the garlic starts turning golden brown. Add green chillies, shallots / onion and little salt. Cover it loosely with the cooker lid. I usually do this to help the onion cook faster. Add all the remaining ingredients including soaked dals along with the water in which it was soaked. Cover the cooker tightly with the whistle on. Cook on low flame for 10 minutes. And your delicious onepot sambar is ready!
Sambar Recipe for idli
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup Yellow Moong dal
- 3 tbsp Tur dal / Pigeon Peas Dal
- 4 cups water
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Jeera / Cumin seeds
- 1 tsp Saunf Seeds / Fennel
- 20 no Curry leaves
- 3-4 no green chillies
- 5-6 no shallots
- 5 no big garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup Coriander leaves
- 1/8 tsp hing
- 1 no tomato
- 1/2 cup Carrots cut in roundels
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric
- 2 tsp sambar powder
Instructions
- Wash both the dals together and soak it in 1 cup water.
- Prepare all the veggies. Wash and chop onion, garlic, green chillies, and coriander leaves. Peel and slice carrot. Adding carrot is optional.
- Heat oil / ghee in a pressure cooker. Splutter mustard seeds. Add cumin seeds, saunf seeds, curry leaves, garlic. Sauté for few seconds till the garlic starts turning golden brown.
- Add green chillies, shallots / onion and little salt. Cover it loosely with the cooker lid. I usually do this to help the onion cook faster.
- 5 When the onions turn translucent, add all the remaining ingredients including soaked dals along with the water in which it was soaked.
- Pour another 2 cups of water and mix. Check for salt by tasting the water. Add if needed. Cover the cooker tightly with the whistle on. Cook on low flame for 10 minutes.
- Once the pressure releases, serve hot with idlis.
