Meatless Monday Sambar( Spicy Vegetable- Lentil Stew ) : Perfect For Vrat/ Fasting



Do you lot honor it difficult to believe that sambar tin live eaten piece fasting?? Of course of report it tin be! In fact it is a perfect fasting nutrient equally it is as well as then nutritious as well as wholesome amongst both the goodness of poly peptide from the dal ( lentil) as well as the all-roundedness provided yesteryear the medley of vegetables. Yes, sambar tin live made without onions as well as it tastes absolutely delicious! I could consume only a big bowl of sambar as well as telephone telephone it a day!


Servings: 4-6


Ingredients:


Toor dal ( carve upwards Pegion-peas): 1/2 cup
Potato: 1 medium, peeled as well as diced medium.
Raw cooking banana: 1 medium, peeled as well as diced small.
Carrots: 1 small, peeled as well as chopped.
Cauliflower florets : 1 cup
Sambar powder: 1 tbsp
Tamarind paste: 1/4 tsp
Jaggery or chocolate-brown sugar: 1 tsp
Asofoetida( hing): pinch
Water:  1 1/2 cups + three 1/2cups + 1/2 cup
Cilantro: 1 tbsp, chopped

For tempering:

Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig

Method:


Cook tur dal  thoroughly amongst 1 1/2 cups H2O inward the pressure level cooker as well as continue aside. When cooled, whip it lightly as well as then that it becomes homogenous.

Boil four cups H2O inward a pot as well as educate the vegetables until tender adding the ones requiring the longest cooking fourth dimension outset as well as the to the lowest degree last.

In the hateful fourth dimension get got 1/2 loving cup warm H2O as well as brand a tamarind solution. Add sambar powder,  jaggery as well as mix well.

To the cooked vegetables, add together the tur dal. Mix well.

Now add together the tamarind & sambar pulverisation mixture as well as allow it come upwards to a boil. Turn off the flame.

Tempering:

In a modest frying pan, estrus oil, add together mustard seeds . Once the mustard seeds splutter, plough off the flame.Add curry leaves. Add it to the sambar.

Garnish amongst freshly chopped cilantro/ coriander leaves.

Serve hot amongst rice/ idlis/ dosa.




Enjoy!


Cooking made easy:


Any combination of vegetables tin live used for sambar. There is no laid rule. Making sambar is a slap-up agency to build clean upwards the refrigerator!

Tip for salubrious living:


If you lot get got a cold/ sore throat/ cough, add together extra dark pepper pulverisation as well as 1 tsp turmeric pulverisation to the to a higher house sambar. Eat a bowl of hot steaming sambar as well as your sinuses volition live cleared due to the dark pepper piece the anti-inflammatory properties of the turmeric pulverisation volition assistance healing.


Food for thought:


The heed is everything. What you lot think, you lot become. Buddha