Hotel sambhar, as the name suggests it tastes just like that.It goes well with dosa and idlies.
Ingredients
Toor dal - 3/4 cup
Tamarind paste - 1tsp
Surakkai / Bottle gourd - 1/2 (medimu sized)
Vendakkai/Okra - 8
Onion - 2 (sliced)
Tomatoes - 1
Carrot - 1
Oil - 2tsp
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Green chillies - 2 (slit)
Coconut- 1tbsp(optional)
Sambhar powder - 1/2tsp(optional)
For Grinding
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Garlic - 2pods
Corainder seeds - 1tsp (dry fry)
Jeera - 1/2tsp>
Method
Boil toor dhal with little turmeric and set aside.In a pressure cooker, boil all the vegetable sincluding onion and tomatoes with little turmeric and salt.(You can add brijal,drumsticks,pumpkin etc).Boil it for 1 whistle.Once the pressure wears off, open the cooker and add tamarind paste, grinded paste and water.Let it boil for few min.s till the raw smell goes.Now add cooked dal and add more salt if neccessary.At this point, i add 1/2tsp of sambhar powder for some color and falvour.Let this boil for another 5 min.s and switch off the heat.In another pan, heat oil and fry mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, hing, and red chillies and pour this tadka into the sambhar.Serve hot with Dosa/idli.
I served this Sambhar and coconut-mint chutney with Seema of Recipe Junction's Set dosa.Thanks to Seema for sharing this recipe.
Asha's Butter chicken
Another hit recipe,Butter chicken from Asha of Foodie's hope that i tried during last week.Everyone fell head over heels for it.Excellent recipe.I made a few changes with her recipe.I used 1tsp of poppy seeds instead of almonds/cashews.And instead of boiling chicken, i shallow fried the chicken pieces in a 1tbsp of butter on high heat making them golden brown on the outside.
Wow!lot of delicious dishes in your post today...i loved butter chicken's colour,appearance of set dosa with chutney..everything...
I had a long desire to try hostel sambar..let me try your version.I never added thelist with you mentioned in grinding list.i use to add garlic along with dhal...when compared with my ususal method..i found little variations here...let me sure try this...
Loved the sambhar and Asha's butter chicken indeed looks awesome
How about "Pineapple" ?
Sambar looks delicous.
Hi Maheswari
Yummy recipe for hotel sambar. How about pears for the fruit of the month?
aaaaaahhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!what a dish?craving for that mahi..
Sambhar recipe is fabulous -- thanks so much for that! Everything looks delicious...
I enjoyed the strawberry festival too :)
You know, when we were growing up, we were told that even vegetarian hotels used to add some powdered prawns to the sambar for that special taste!
Any time you say Hotel,attracts me Mahesh.Looks wonderful.Of course I am all over it girl!:)) Will make it on Monday.Thank you.
Come up with the fruit already,you are the host with the power to choose! ;D
Butter chicken is awesome!!Happy to know you enjoyed it!:))
Mahi,
Hotel sambar looks yummy. Adding garlic is so so very new to me. gottu try it.
Thanx
Seema
The sambar looks delicious, will try out the combo soon.
And I would second Sandeepa's choice of Pineapple for the next AFAM
Hi,
I loved ur concept of AFAM..So, what's the fruit for this month?
Swaps
Hi Maheshwari,
Nice roundup of strawberries.Superb Sambar. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Maheswari,
This recipe is so different from the usual recipes of sambhar :)I will try this , this one looks easy. I have always tried to bring that 'hotel ' touch to my sambhar but never succeeded :) Thanx a lot for sharing this rccipe :)
Hello
The hotel sambhar is one recipe I was searching all over the blog as my kid just love to drink it rather than having it with her dosa.
Thnx for sharing this recipe here.
Here chk the recipe for Idli sambhar with besan:
http://www.indusladies.com/forums/2612-post11.html
Hi Mahesh, I made your hotel sambhar yesterday and it was just amazing. My husband even asked me if I had bought the sambhar from the indian restaurant:) Thanks for the recipe. It is going to be a regular at my place from now on.