Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, idli sambhar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
idli sambar also known as tiffin sambar is a healthy & delicious mix vegetable dal soup served with South Indian breakfast foods. This idli sambar is a super fast recipe that uses only quick cook veggies. It is very delicious and can be served with idli, dosa, vada, pongal and even with rice. idli sambar recipe
Idli Sambhar is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Idli Sambhar is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have idli sambhar using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Idli Sambhar:
- Prepare 2 cups idli rice
- Make ready 2 cups dosa rice
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Methi seeds
- Prepare 1 cup urad Dal
- Make ready For sambhar
- Make ready 1 cup tuvar Dal washed and pressure cooker with couple of tomatoes turmeric
- Get 1/2 cup pumpkin yellow
- Make ready 1/2 cup carrots
- Get 2 drumsticks
- Make ready 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Take 2 tablespoons sambhar powder
- Get 1 sting curry leaves
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Take hing for tempering
- Prepare Lemon size tamarind extract
- Prepare 1 teaspoon chilli powder
If you already haven't relished Idli Sambar at an Indian household or an Indian restaurant yet, then this is a must try! Idli Sambar are a typical South Indian breakfast that has become popular across the globe for it's soft spongy Idlis and lipsmackingly delicious Sambar. Idli Sambar is a complete food in itself as it contains all the essential nutrients, minerals and vitamins that are essential for your overall health. Different vegetables like beans, carrot, drumstick, etc. present in the sambar provide enough fiber that aides your digestive health.
Instructions to make Idli Sambhar:
- How to make idli batter.wash the idli and dosa rice thoroughly in clean drinking water till clear and soak with methi seeds for 4 hours
- Wash thoroughly the urad Dal till clear in clean drinking water and soak for 3-4 hours
- Take the idli and dosa rice soaked well in water and grind it in the wet grinder adding little water at a time. Keep checking the wet grinder container and adjust water as needed, it would take around 20 minutes to get the perfect rice batter. Transfer it to a vessel keep it aside
- Transfer urad Dal back to the wet grinder and grind it till soft and fluffy adding little water at a time, make sure the grinder vessel doesn't get overheated and remove the finely ground urad Dal batter. The right consistency is to drop a spoon of batter in water and it should float and hold shape
- Now mix the idli and urad Dal batter nicely using hands adding 2 teaspoons salt till you get a nice smooth batter which is mixed properly.
- Transfer it to a dish and keep it overnight for fermentation which would take around 8 hours
- Next day, take a idli steaming vessel, add half cup of water to the idli vessel and keep the gas in medium flame
- Grease the idli plates with ghee or oil and pour one ladleful of idli batter to each mould, transfer to the idli steamer vessel and steam it for 10-13 minutes in medium flame.
- Once the idlis are cooked wait for few minutes before removing them from the idli plate. Take a wet spoon dipped in water and slowly remove the idlis and transfer to a hotpack or plate for serving
- For the sambhar cook the tuvar Dal and 2 tomatoes and salt in pressure cooker for 5-6 whistles. Mash it well
- Cook the vegetables with salt chilli and coriander powder with turmeric in 2 and half cups of water
- Once cooked well add the cooked tuvar Dal and tamarind extract, bring to a boil.
- Then add two tablespoons of sambhar powder and simmer for 5-6 minutes in medium flame
- Give tadka in ghee with mustard seeds hing curry leaves.
Moreover, idlis are steamed and sambar contains very little. Idli Sambar recipe with step by step photos and video. Idli and sambar is a combination made for each other. There are many ways sambar can be made. This idli sambar recipe is super tasty and can be served with South Indian tiffin snacks like idli, dosa, medu vada, rava idli, rava dosa and Pongal etc.
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