Tiffin Sambar Recipe | Hotel Style Tiffin Sambar
Tiffin Sambar Recipe / Hotel style Tiffin Sambar is prepared for tiffin items and is different from regular sambar. Moong dal is used for this sambar.
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Moong Dal
- 8 to 10 Small Onion / Shallot
- 1 Green chilli
- 1 Tomato
- 1 Potato
- 1 Carrot
- 1 Small gooseberry size Tamarind
- 1/8 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 2 tsp Jaggery / Sugar (Optional)
- Coriander Leaves For garnishing
- Salt As Required
To Roast & Grind
- 1 tblsp Channa Dal
- 1 tblsp Coriander Seeds
- 3 to 4 Red chilli
- 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
- 1/2 tsp Jeera
- Few Curry Leaves (Optional)
To Temper
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1/2 tsp Urad Dal
- 1/2 tsp Jeera
- 1 Red Chilli
- 2 Sprig Curry Leaves
- 1 Generous pinch Hing
- 1 tblsp Oil / Ghee
Instructions
- Chop onion, tomato and slit green chilli. Peel the skin of carrot, potato and chop it. Soak tamarind in water. In a pan, dry roast all the ingredients given in the table 'To Roast & Grind'.
- Allow it to cool. In a mixer, grind the roasted ingredients to a coarse powder. In a pan dry roast moong dal until nice aroma arises. Once the dal cools, rinse well and pressure cook for 5 to 6 whistles with required water. Mash it well.
- In a pan heat oil and temper with the ingredients listed in the table 'To Temper'. Add shallots and saute well. Now add green chilli, tomato and saute till it turns mushy.
- Then add potato, carrot and dal water. Add turmeric powder, salt and cook for 7 to 8 minutes till the veggies turn soft.
- Now pour tamarind water, add the grinded powder, mix well and boil for a while. Add cooked dal and boil for another 5 minutes. Finally add sugar and garnish with coriander leaves.
- Serve this hotel style tiffin sambar with hot steaming idli's.