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Carrot Tomato Sambar

Make delicious sambar with sweetness of carrots and using home-made sambar powder!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Tovar dal / Yellow lentil
  • 2 Carrot peeled and chopped
  • 1 Tomato chopped
  • 2 tbsp Tamarind
  • 2 tsp Sambar Powder
  • 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1/4 tsp Asafoetida/Hing
  • Salt to taste
  • 3 tsp Vegetable Oil
  • 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
  • 2 red chillies
  • 1 sprig Curry leaves
  • 1 tsp Ghee

Instructions

  1. Soak tamarind in some warm water for 15 minutes in 1/2 cup warm water. Now drain the water in a separate bowl by removing the pulp.

  2. Clean and Pressure cook dal with 1/2 cup of water and 1/4 tsp turmeric powder till its soft and cooked properly. Mash the lentil and keep it aside.

  3. Add 1 tsp oil in a wok and when its warm, add carrots and tomatoes and saute for few minutes.

  4. Now add sambar powder, tamarind water and 1/2 cup of water in a pan and let it cook on low flame for 5 minutes till carrots get cooked properly.
  5. Add salt to taste, cooked lentil and mix it well. If you feel its too thick, you can add some more water and adjust the consistency.

  6. Add 2 tsp oil and ghee in a small frying pan and when its warm, add mustard seeds. When mustard seeds splutter, add red chillies, a pinch of asafoetida, curry leaves and saute for few seconds.  Add this in the Sambar and serve it hot with some rice or Idli or Dosa.