Hotel Style Tiffin Sambar | Tiffin Sambar | Sambar Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 big bowl
 
A must with idli, dosa and uddina vada, hotel style tiffin sambar
Ingredients
For Dal:
  • ⅓ Cup toor dal
  • ½ Tsp ghee
  • 1 pinch of hing
  • ¼ Tsp turmeric
For Masala:
  • ¼ Cup grated coconut
  • 1 small green chilli
  • 2 Tbsp dhania
  • 1 Tbsp chana dal
  • 1 red chilli
  • ⅛ Tsp methi seeds
  • 1 pinch hing
  • 1 Tsp coconut oil
  • Sea salt or table salt to taste
For Sambar:
  • 1 Tsp tamarind paste or ¼ Cup tamarind pulp
  • 2 Tsp sambar powder
  • 1 piece jaggery
  • 2 sliced shallots or 1 sliced onion
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • Few curry leaves
For Tadka:
  • 1 Tsp coconut oil
  • ½ Tsp mustard
Method
  1. Pressure cook washed dal for 5-6 whistles with hing, turmeric and little ghee
  2. When cooker cools down, mash the dal and keep aside
  3. In a pan, add coconut oil and roast all ingredients given under 'For masala' except coconut and green chilli, till aromatic and slightly golden
  4. When masala ingredients cool down take the mixture in a mixer jar
  5. Add grated coconut and green chilli
  6. Grind into a paste
  7. Take the paste in a vessel or pan
  8. Add 1 Tsp tamarind, jaggery, 2 Tsp sambar powder and sea salt
  9. Add about a cup of water to adjust consistency and bring to a boil
  10. Pour mashed dal and boil for further 2-3 minutes
  11. In a pan heat coconut oil and add mustard and hing
  12. Once mustard splutters, saute sliced onions till, 2 chopped tomatoes, curry leaves
  13. After the tomatoes soften add this to boiling sambar, mix well
  14. Boil for 5 more minutes
  15. Serve hot with idli!
Notes
Skip onions if you want, also add some mixed vegetables if you wish to

You can also use ghee for making tadka but coconut oil has a distinct aroma and flavour as well

You can also make sambar with leftover plain dal
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/tiffin-sambar/