Beetroot Sambar | Beetroot huLi | Beetroot Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
 
Healthy, colourful, beetroot sambar, easy preparation for lunch
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup toor dal
  • ¼ Tsp turmeric
  • 1 slit green chilli
  • 1 Tsp tamarind paste or 1 small lemon sized tamarind squeezed off its pulp
  • ½ Tbsp jaggery
  • 1 Cup or 1 medium sized diced beetroot
  • 1 Tsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp ghee
  • 1 finely chopped clove garlic
  • ½ Tsp garlic
  • Few curry leaves
  • Salt to taste
Method
  1. Rinse toor dal and add 1½ Cups water, sprinkle turmeric
  2. Pressure cook dal for 4-5 whistles or till soft
  3. Add a slit green chilli, jaggery and tamarind paste and mix well
  4. Peel and dice up the beetroot
  5. Add the beetroot into a pan with water
  6. Let it cook till beetroot is soft
  7. Meanwhile, let's make the tadka, heat ghee in a kadai
  8. Add chopped garlic, throw in a few curry leaves and add jeera
  9. Once the beetroot turns soft, add dal
  10. Mix dal well with cooked beetroot
  11. Add salt to taste
  12. Finally add the tadka we made earlier
  13. Serve hot with steamed rice!
Notes
Skip garlic if you want. Garlic defines this sambar though!

Sprinkle little rasam/saarina powder or sambar pudi if you want but plain is very nice
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/beetroot-sambar/