Hotel Style Idli Sambar Recipe | Tiffin Sambar
Ingredients
- Potatoes- 2 numbers
- Onion- 1 no.
- Fresh peas- Handful
- Pigeon pea lentils- 1/4 cup
- Salt- 1.5 tsp or to taste
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Chopped Coriander leaves- Handful
- Jaggery powder- 1 tsp
To roast and grind
- Coriander seeds- 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds- 3/4 tsp
- Split blackgram lentils urad dal- 1 tsp
- Split chickpea lentils toor dal- 1 tsp
- Fresh grated coconut- 1/4 cup
- Red chillies- 2 nos.
- Cinnamon sticks- 3" piece
- Cloves- 4 nos.
- Tamarind- Marble sized
- Cooking oil- 3 tsp
Instructions
Preparation
- Wash the potatoes with enough water, chop them in to medium sized dices. Peel off the onion and slice it finely. Get the peas too shelled off.
- Pressure cook the pigeon pean lentils with enough water till soft. Mash it up and keep aside.
Method
- In a pan or wok add a tsp of cooking oil and roast the onion slices till they become translucent. Transfer the onions. Next in the same pan add 2 tsp of oil, spices like coriander, cumin seeds, both the lentils, red chillies, cloves, cinnamon followed by curry leaves.
- With constant sauteing roast all the spices. When the lentils turn little brown, switch off the pan. Throw in the grated coconut and tamarind. Let the coconut warm up a bit. Take everything in a mixer and grind to fine puree adding water as needed.
- Next cook the vegetables with enough water, turmeric powder and salt. When the veggies turn soft, pour the ground masala from above step.
- Include the cooked lentils, jaggery and water according to desired consistency. Bring it to boil, finally add sauted onions and salt. Switch off after a while.
- Hotel style idli sambar is ready. Garnish with coriander leaves and relish with steamed idli, dosa.
Notes
- You can use other veggies like carrot and turnip along with potato.
- Do not use more coconut than mentioned. The coconut doesn't have to be roasted with spices, include it after switching off the stove.
- As per the desired consistency of sambar, you can add water.
- This idli sambar is mild in spice, you can increase red chillies if you like spicy sambar.