Moolangi Sambar | Radish Sambar | Sambar Recipes
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4 people
 
Aromatic and super tasty, Karnataka style moolangi sambar or moolangi huli
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup toor dal/togari bele/pigeon pea dal/arhar dal
  • 1 big or 300 Gm daikon radish/moolangi
  • ¼ Tsp turmeric
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 small lime sized tamarind/hunase hannu/imli
  • 1 piece jaggery/bella/gur
  • 2 Tbsp sambar powder/huLi pudi
  • Chopped coriander
For Tadka:
  • 4-5 shallots/sambar onions
  • 2 finely chopped onions
  • Few curry leaves
  • 1 broken dry red chilli
  • 1 Tsp edible coconut oil/cooking oil
  • ½ Tsp mustard/saasuve/rai
  • ¼ Tsp menthya/methi seeds/fenugreek
Method
  1. Wash dal twice and renew the water
  2. Pressure cook dal for 1½ Cups water for 5-6 whistles
  3. Once pressure cools down, churn the dal and mash it, keep it aside
  4. Wash, trim the ends and peel the radish/moolangi
  5. Cut into small pieces, semi or quarter circles and slice the shallots/sambar onions
  6. In a small pan, take the chopped radish, add little water
  7. Sprinkle turmeric and salt
  8. Bring it to heat and let the radish cook
  9. Once the radish is cooked, keep it aside
  10. Meanwhile when the radish is cooking, squeeze pulp from the tamarind in 2 Tbsp warm water
  11. Let us make tadka, heat coconut oil in a pan
  12. Add mustard and let them splutter
  13. Next add methi seeds and broken red chilli
  14. Throw in a few torn curry leaves and fry
  15. Add the sliced shallots and fry
  16. Once the onions turn translucent, add chopped tomatoes and fry
  17. When the tomatoes turn mushy and soft, add sambar powder/huLi pudi
  18. Fry for a minute, add tamarind water and throw in the jaggery
  19. Pour ½ Cup water and bring it to light boil
  20. Add the mashed dal
  21. Also add the cooked radish along with the water
  22. Mix everything very well, adjust salt, remember it was already added once when radish was cooking
  23. Bring the sambar to a light boil
  24. Finish with coriander and serve hot with steamed rice/bisi bisi anna
Notes
You can also fry the radish with onions before adding tomatoes

If you want grind 3 Tbsp coconut with 1 Tsp dhania/coriander seeds for fresh masala and thickness of the sambar

Adjust sambar powder, tamarind and jaggery according to your taste
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/moolangi-sambar/