Meatless Monday Moolangi ( Radish) Sambar

I am the variety who drools over vegetables! Today, I am proud to hold upwards role of Meatless Monday.Meatless Mon is a organization whose finish is to cut back global meat consumption.For to a greater extent than data almost Meatless Mon function here.I am thankful to Mrs Sonal Gupta for introducing me to this movement.She has a smashing blog http://simplyvegetarian777.wordpress.com.

As a child, I never ate moolangi/ radish. This is because my woman raise never bought or cooked moolangi. Why???because she does non similar the odour that it imparts spell cooking. I ever wanted to detect out how it tasted. When I started living on my own, I started using radish. I similar it, peculiarly when I brand this sambar out of it. The odour of it when it cooks is a lilliputian unpleasant , but that's exclusively temporary. The gustation is great.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Moolangi /White radish: ii medium length ones.
Onion: 1 medium chopped
Tur dal: 1/4 cup
Sambar powder: 1 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder:1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
Jaggery/ brownish sugar: 1/2 tsp
Tamarind: marble sized if dry,( 1/4 tsp if pulp)
Water: 1 cup+ 1 cup
Mustard seeds : 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Asofoetida: pinch
Cilantro ( coriander leaves): 1/4 loving cup chopped.

Method:

Cook tur dal thoroughly alongside 1 loving cup H2O inwards the pull per unit of measurement area cooker too function along aside. When cooled, whip it lightly then that it becomes homogenous.

With a knife/ peeler scrape the tegument of the radish. Wash it too piece it into 0.5 cms thickness slices.

Add i loving cup water, common salt too gear upwards it on the stove-top. When one-half cooked, add together the chopped onions. Should receive got almost 10-15 mins max for the radish to cook.

In the hateful fourth dimension receive got 1/2 loving cup warm H2O too brand a tamarind solution. Add sambar powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder, jaggery too mix well.

To the cooked radish, add together the tur dal. Mix well.

Now add together the tamarind & sambar pulverization mixture too permit it come upwards to a boil. Turn off the flame.

In a modest frying pan, oestrus oil, add together mustard. Once the mustard splutters, add together curry leaves too asofoetida powder. Add it to the sambar.

Garnish alongside freshly chopped cilantro/ coriander leaves.

Serve hot alongside rice/ idlis.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

I tend to build clean every bit I cook. This makes certain that I exercise non receive got a whole pile of dishes too a messy kitchen waiting to hold upwards cleaned when I am already tired of cooking.

Tip for salubrious living:

Radish has a whole lot of wellness benefits. They are strong detoxifiers too so purify the liver. It provides much needed dietary fiber too roughage hence preventing constipation.It every bit good is filling too helps us teach satiated quickly.They every bit good are supposed to receive got anti-inflammatory too anti-carcinogenic properties.

References:
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-502-RADISH.aspx?activeIngredientId=502&activeIngredientName=RADISH
http://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vegetable/health-benefits-of-radish.html

Food for thought:

A journeying of a one 1000 miles begins alongside a unmarried step. ( Lao Tzu).