Healthy Radish Sambar Recipe

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Radish Sambar is the delicious and healthy South Indian dal. It is accompanied with rice. Serve this radish sambar along with steamed rice topped with ghee. Let’s follow this recipe.

Ingredients

TamarindBig gooseberry size
1 tspSambar powder
1 no/ 10 nosBig onion or sambar onion
1 noTomato (optional)
3 nosGreen chili
2 nosRed chili
2-3Hing / Asafoetida generous pinches
a pinchJaggery

To pressure cook

1/2 cupToor dal
1Radish (big - 250 gm)
1/4 tspTurmeric powder

To temper

1 tbspCooking oil
1 tspMustard seeds
1/4 tspMethi seeds
fewCurry leaves
1 noRed chili (pinched into 2)
to garnishCoriander leaves
2 tspGhee (for flavor)

Directions

Step1Peel the skin of radish and cut into 1/2 inch round slices and saute them in a tbsp of oil.
Step2Peel and roughly chop the onions, slit green chilies, red chilies, and set it aside and soak tamarind in water and take the extract.
Step3Pressure cook the toor dal and sauteed the radish adding turmeric powder and the required water.
Step4Cook for 1-2 whistle in low flame and open the cooker and mash the dal well along with radish.
Step5In a pan, heat oil and splutter mustard seeds and methi seeds and take care that the methi seeds should not be burnt
Step6Add the onions, curry leaves, green chilies, red chilies, and saute well till onion turns transparent.
Step7Add the tamarind extract, sambar powder, turmeric powder,salt and allow it to boil.
Step8When it starts to boil, add curry leaves, 2-3 generous pinches of hing and jaggery and boil it for minutes.
Step9Add the mashed dal and some water if necessary and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Step10Finally, add the coriander leaves, boil it and switch off the flame.
Step11Transfer the sambar to a bowl and add 2 tsp of ghee and cover it with a lid.
Step12Serve it Hot.