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Onion Sambar

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Ingredients

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1 cup arhar dal
1 cup pearl onions
1 tomato – chopped
1 cup tamarind water
2 tbsp sambar powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste
For Tempering
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp methi seeds (fenugreek seeds)
2 dry red chilis
1 pinch asafoetida
1 sprig curry leaves – roughly torn

Nutritional information

600
calories
133.88 g
carbohydrates
20.23 g
protein
3.82 g
fat
413 mg
sodium
0 mg
cholesterol

Onion Sambar

Features:
  • Veg
Cuisine:
  • 30 mins
  • Serves 4
  • Easy

Ingredients

  • For Tempering

How to make Onion Sambar

  • Pressure cook the dal with salt, turmeric powder, and 2 cups water for 5 whistles or until the dal is done.
  • Mash the toor dal and set aside.
  • Pour a teaspoon of oil into the pressure cooker.
    • Add the pearl onions.
    • Roast the pearl onions for about 4 - 5 minutes until a roasted aroma permeates the air.
    • Add the tomatoes and the homemade sambar powder, salt, turmeric powder and the tamarind water.
  • Cover the pressure cooker.
    • Let the masala pressure cook for 2 whistles.
    • Turn off the heat.
    • Release the pressure.
  • Open the cooker.
  • Add the mashed toor dal and the onion sambar.
  • Adjust salt to taste.

For tempering

  • Heat a small tadka pan with oil.
    • Add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, dry red chilli and pinch of hing.
    • Cook until they start to crackle.
    • Add the curry leaves.
    • Turn off the heat.
  • Pour the tempering over the onion sambar.
  • Give the sambar a brisk boil.
  • Stir in the chopped coriander leaves

Trivia

Onions were used as currency, for goods and services during the middle age.

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