Meatless Monday Sambar( Spicy Vegetable- Lentil Stew ) : Perfect For Vrat/ Fasting

Do you lot notice it difficult to believe that sambar tin live eaten piece fasting?? Of course of report it tin be! In fact it is a perfect fasting nutrient every bit it is together with thus nutritious together with wholesome amongst both the goodness of poly peptide from the dal ( lentil) together with the all-roundedness provided past times the medley of vegetables. Yes, sambar tin live made without onions together with it tastes absolutely delicious! I could swallow only a big bowl of sambar together with telephone outcry upward it a day!

Servings: 4-6

Ingredients:

Toor dal ( split upward Pegion-peas): 1/2 cup
Potato: 1 medium, peeled together with diced medium.
Raw cooking banana: 1 medium, peeled together with diced small.
Carrots: 1 small, peeled together with chopped.
Cauliflower florets : 1 cup
Sambar powder: 1 tbsp
Tamarind paste: 1/4 tsp
Jaggery or brownish sugar: 1 tsp
Asofoetida( hing): pinch
Water: 1 1/2 cups + three 1/2cups + 1/2 cup
Cilantro: 1 tbsp, chopped

For tempering:

Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig

Method:

Cook tur dal thoroughly amongst 1 1/2 cups H2O inwards the pressure level cooker together with operate on aside. When cooled, whip it lightly together with thus that it becomes homogenous.

Boil four cups H2O inwards a pot together with laid upward the vegetables until tender adding the ones requiring the longest cooking fourth dimension kickoff together with the to the lowest degree last.

In the hateful fourth dimension accept 1/2 loving cup warm H2O together with brand a tamarind solution. Add sambar powder, jaggery together with mix well.

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

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

Tempering:

In a modest frying pan, oestrus oil, add together mustard seeds . Once the mustard seeds splutter, plough off the flame.Add curry leaves. Add it to the sambar.

Garnish amongst freshly chopped cilantro/ coriander leaves.

Serve hot amongst rice/ idlis/ dosa.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Any combination of vegetables tin live used for sambar. There is no laid rule. Making sambar is a nifty agency to construct clean upward the refrigerator!

Tip for salubrious living:

If you lot get got a cold/ sore throat/ cough, add together extra dark pepper pulverization together with 1 tsp turmeric pulverization to the inwards a higher house sambar. Eat a bowl of hot steaming sambar together with your sinuses volition live cleared due to the dark pepper piece the anti-inflammatory properties of the turmeric pulverization volition assistance healing.

Food for thought:

The heed is everything. What you lot think, you lot become. Buddha