Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, my mom's soothing okra sambar. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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I love a good sambar recipe and i love the one that my mom makes. I've tried making sambar so many times and it's never been the way I've expected. My mom usually prepares sambar recipe on any auspicious day and this recipe is exactly what she uses to nail it.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my mom's soothing okra sambar using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar:
- Take 250 gms okra cut into cubes
- Get 2 cups tamarind water
- Make ready As needed: Salt
- Make ready 3-4 tablespoons gingelly oil
- Get 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Take Seasoning
- Take 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- Get 1 tsp chana dal
- Get 2 tsp urad dal
- Make ready 1/4 tsp asafoetida/hing
- Take 2 Green chillies slit lengthwise
- Make ready 1 sprig curry leaves
This is my mom in law's basic sambar recipe for rice in which we use lady's finger @ okra. Last week a reader mailed me to blog basic sambar & vathakuzhambu recipes. So i thought of sharing this recipe which might be useful for Tamil new year lunch menu too. My mom makes it perfectly and she even says it is perfect for beginners in cooking as it comes out easily tasty, how ever you do small mistakes.
Instructions to make My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar:
- In a pot, add oil and put in the items given under seasoning section. Wait till the dals become golden brown.
- Add in the chopped okra and mix well. Toss until okra is cooked well to about 80%. Make sure it is not completely cooked as it turns mushy.
- Add in the tamarind water and let it boil covered until the raw smell goes off. Now, add in turmeric powder along with required amount of salt.
- Finally, when all the raw smell have gone of turmeric, turn off heat and close it until serving.
- Tip: note that this sambar is supposed to be watery as against the usual thick varieties. The runny texture and the thick okra blend well with rice. The more thicker it becomes, the proper taste of okra is lost. Also, add no other seasoning like sambar powder or cilantro/coriander leaves. They take the authentic taste away from this recipe.
Idli/ sambar breakfast combo, is a hot favorite of not only South Indians but also of people from other parts of India. The Trissur style sambar is made using roasted coconut paste (varutharacha sambar) and there are different kinds of sambar like ulli sambar, okra sambar. As a southindian sambar is one of our staple dish, we make it with a whole lot of vegetables, frankly we make sambar with any vegetables. We have sambar with dosa, idlis, rice. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how it turned out.
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