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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Mixed Vegetable Sambar(Puli Kari)

Vegetable sambar is my favourite sambar.This can be prepared during Pongal festival.In our home country ,we put 21 types of vegetables to this sambar.Here it is very difficult to find some vegetables and also we can't get required quantity.okra,potato,sweet potato,egg plant,beans,yam,yum,bottle guard,bitter gaurd,choyate,carrot,averakai,jackfruit,amla,...I forgot some vegetables.

Ingredient:
3/4 cup toor dal
1/4 cup of chick peas&lima beans
1 garlic cloves
1/4 tsp chopped ginger
5 no shallot
1 no tomato
3 green chilli(split)
1/2 tsp mustard seed
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
lemon size tamrind
3 tsp sambar powder
7 no curry leaves
4 stick cilantro(coriander leaves)
2 tablespoon grated coconut
2 cup of diced mixed vegetable (i mentioned above)
1/4 tsp hing
oil
salt
Method:
1.Soak chick peas and lima beans overnight.
2.In a Pressure cooker pan add toordal,chick peas,lima beans,garlic,ginger,turmeric,vegetable and water.
3.In a seperate vessel add tamrind along with water and place this into a pressure cooker.
4.Cook until 3 whistle.
5.Cut onion and tomato.
6.Heat a pan add oil,add onion ,green chilli,saute for sometime,add tomato,curry leaves,salt,saute for sometime,add sambar powder and fry well, note that it will not burn.
7.Now extract tamrind juice from the tamrind and through away the husk.
8.Add tamrind juice and boil for some time until onion, and tomato are cooked.
9.Add toor dal and vegetables and boil for some time and add grated coconut boil for sometime,add chopped coriander leaves.
10.For the seasoning, heat oil in a kadai ,add mustard seed and hing pour into sambar.

Note:Don't cut vegetables into small pieces.


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