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à®ாà®®்à®ªாà®°்/Sambar ~ How To Make Simple Mixed vegetable Sambhar Sambar - the most flavourful  vegetable stew from south Indian homes. For those who don't know what is sambar? it is a vegetarian dish made out of pulses like split yellow pulses, tamarind pulp, a good amount of spices (as sambar powder)  a lot of vegetables.

A complete dish which  is often eaten with rice as a main course along with some vegetable side dish and appalam. Also accompanied with Idli / Dosa recipes. A wholesome main course that provides protein from pulses, anti -oxidants from spices and vegetables provide whole lot of fiber. The remarkable feature of sambar is that can use as many vegetables like pumpkin, brinjal, drumstick, carrot, raddish with onion and tomato flavour.

Preparation & Cooking Time :  1 Hour YIELD : 2-3 Servings


Split Pigeon peas / Toor Dal / Tuvaram paruppu - 1/2 cup
Mixed vegetables - 1 cup(your choice of veggie)
(I used Drumstick, carrot, broccoli, raddish, Brinjal)
Onion - 1 Large sliced
Tomato - 1 Large chopped
Thick Tamarind extract - 1 tbsp
Water - 2 cups + 1 cup for dal cooking
Jaggery - 1tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1tsp
Sambar Powder - 1 tbsp
Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
Gingelly oil- 1 tsp
Salt To Taste

Oil - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Broken  red chilli -2 no.
Curry leaves & coriander leaves few springs 
Beans kootu
Tiffin Sambar
Dhudi Channa Dal
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 Tags: Mixed Vegetables Sambar Sambhar/Rasam South Indian Recipes 
Its quite a ritual for me to make this mixed veggies sambar atleast twice a week,beautiful dish.

18 March 2013 at 13:58 
wow... i could have that plate of rice and sambar right now... yum...

18 March 2013 at 14:13 Meena B said...

wow.. i never thought of using brocoli in this sambhar

i do make sambhar rice at tims when fed up of regular dal

18 March 2013 at 16:17 Priti S said...

Yum...using brocooli is nice idea ..

18 March 2013 at 17:12 Leena Chandrashekar said...

Amazing platter..

18 March 2013 at 19:45 Helen Prabha said...

Wow....great way to use broccoli....

18 March 2013 at 19:56 
looks mouthwatering...just delicious!

18 March 2013 at 21:24 Kaveri Venkatesh said...

Very flavorful sambar...broccoli in Sambar sounds like an interesting way to use them

18 March 2013 at 22:41 Kitchen Queen said...

Glad to know that I am not the only one who sneak vegis when ever I got chance. I die for this sambhar, specially for all this vegetables in it. pass me both dishes and i am in heaven.

19 March 2013 at 01:16 Swathi Iyer said...

Delicious sambar. love it.

19 March 2013 at 06:36 Chandrani Banerjee said...

Vegetable sambar looks yummy and inviting.

19 March 2013 at 14:00 Shailaja Reddy said...

Flavorful and tasty sambar.

20 March 2013 at 06:14