Small Onion Sambar | Ulli sambar

Side dish: Small onion sambar

Servings: 4

Duration: 30 minutes

Sambar is a Savory Lentils Soup or stew made with Red Gram, freshly chopped veggies and by adding Homemade Sambar Powder. Today I am sharing the easiest sambar recipe with shallots or small onion. It serves as a side dish for South Indian Breakfasts such as Poori, Dosa, Idly and at lunch, you can serve with rice or Chapathi. This Sambar is flavorful and delicious 😋 I hope you will try and enjoy it!

Let’s start with Ingredients and follows Procedure

Ingredients:

• Small onions – 250 grams
• Split red gram/ toor dal/ Kandi Pappu – cooked – 80 grams
• sambar powder (homemade) – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
• Coconut oil – 1 tbsp
• Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp – chopped
• Tamarind pulp – 1 teaspoon – soaked in 2tbsp water
• Salt- 1 tsp
• Hing / asafoetida – 1/4 tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves – 8
• Water – 100 ml to cook onions
• Water – 320 ml to make sambar

Procedure:

How to cook toor dal?

• In a bowl add red gram and wash twice, drain the water then transfer dal to a pressure cooker, add turmeric powder (1/2 tsp ) and water ( 200 ml )
• Cook for 3 whistles and turn off the heat. When the pressure released, open the lid and saute with ladle then transfer to a bowl. Keep it aside

Process of making sambar:

• On a medium heated skillet, add oil
• When it’s hot add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves
• Saute half a minute or till they splutter, then add shallots/ small onions
• Saute 5 minutes then add hing, turmeric powder, and salt
• Saute and add water 100 ml, cover with the lid and cook for 10 mins
• Then add cooked dal, tamarind water, jaggery, sambar powder, saute a minute
• Next, add 320 ml water and combine well
• Cover with lid and cook sambar for 10 more minutes
• When sambar cooked well, turn off the heat and add coriander leaves
• Combine well and serve with rice and papad 🙂

Step by step process shown below:

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