Sambar is a very staple South Indian dish. We make different varieties of sambar at home. Sambar is usually served with rice or with Pongal, idli, dosai, and upma. We make sambar using different veggies. The most common ones are radish, vendakai| okra, brinjal, small onions, capsicum, and yellow pumpkin. Some people make Chow chow sambar, turnip samabr and ash gourd sambar too. This is one of the simple and easy recipes of the South Indian sambar. We are using drumstick | murungakkai in this recipe. You can use any vegetable of your choice. This is a no onion no garlic recipe. We usually don’t add onion | tomato while making sambar. If you want you can add it. The South Indian sambar is made using the Homemade Sambar podi recipe. Try out this easy and simple South Indian sambar recipe Also, check out Drumstick masala, Drumstick leaves sambar, Raw mango sambar, and Kalyana sambar.
Wash and cook the toor dal by adding 1 cup of water and turmeric powder.Cook in pressure cooker for 4-5 whistles.Take out and whisk it well and keep aside.
Extract tamarind juice using 2 and ½ cups of water.Chop the drumstick and keep aside.In a kadai add 2 tsp oil and add the mustard seeds, broken red chili and curry leaves.Once the mustard seeds splutter add the chopped drumstick.
Add in the tamarind water, sambar powder, turmeric powder, salt and asafoetida.
Let this boil for 10 minutes in medium flame. Let the drumstick gets cooked well.Add in the cooked toor dal to this and mix well.
You can add little water to adjust the consistency of the sambar.Let this boil for 2-3 minutes.You can add ¼ tsp of jaggery to this. This step is optional, but it enhances the taste of the sambar.
Drumstick sambar is ready.
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