Sunday, March 31, 2013

Mango Mixed Vegetable Sambar

Ingredients:
  1. Thur dal – 1 cup
  2. Green mango – 1 (peeled and sliced)
  3. Sweet potato – 6 to 7 pieces
  4. Drum stick – 2 (cut as shown)
  5. Radish – 1 (peel and cut into round circles of 1 cm) (roast the pieces in ½ sp of oil in a pan)
  6. Tomatoes – 2 (cut into cubes)
  7. Onion – 2 (sliced)
  8. Green chilli – 2 or 3
  9. Carrot – 1 (cut into cubes)
  10. Karipath leaves – few
  11. Red chilli powder – 2 or 3 sps
  12. Turmeric powder – 1 sp
  13. Daniya powder – 2 or 3 sps
  14. Hing – ¼ sp
  15. Ginger – 1 sp (grated)
  16. For tadka – as shown
  17. Fresh coriander leaves for garnishing
  18. Cooking oil – 2 tbsps
  19. Tamarind juice – ¼ cup

Method:
  1. In a pressure cooker (with 2 bowls) cook thurdal, turmeric powder ½ sp and hing in one bowl.
  2. And in another bowl, mix roasted radish pieces, onion sliced half the quantity, raw mango pieces, sweet potato pieces, turmeric powder ½ sp, daniya powder, redchilli powder and salt 1 sp.
  3. Now pressure cook the above two bowls together. (as shown)
  4. For drum sticks, heat oil in a deep pan and add all the tadka material shown.
  5. Fry for 1 min and add rest of sliced onions, karipatha, green chilli, salt to taste, grated ginger, tomato pieces, tamarind juice and 1 cup of water.
  6. Boil the above drum stick mixture for 10 mins / till the drum sticks are soft.
  7. When the drum stick is cooked now add the pressure cooked to bowls to the drum stick mixture.
  8. Add salt/tamarind juice/ water as per ur taste. And allow it to boil for 5 to 7 mins.
  9. Granish the mouth watering sambar with fresh coriander leaves.
  10. Tasty mango sambar is ready to serve now. Serve it with idli/plain rice.