sambar recipes like mango sambar, black eyed beans sambar and radish sambar. Today’s recipe is a another variation prepared with amaranth
leaves. This tastes good with cooked rice with a dollop of ghee.
You can also serve with breakfast dishes like idli, idiyappam, millet pongal, wheat pongal, rava pongal and corn dosa.
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| Amaranth Sambar, Rice and Vankaya Kobbari Karam |
Thotakoora Sambar / Arai Keerai Sambar Recipe
Preparation & Cooking Time : 25 mins
Serves: 5 persons
Ingredients:
Amaranth Leaves / Mulai Keerai : 2 cups, chopped
Toor Dal: 1/4 cup
Onion : 1 large
tomato : 1 large
Sambar Powder : 1 tbsp
Dried Coconut Powder: 1 tbsp
Tamarind : gooseberry sized ball
Powdered jaggery: 1 – 2 tsp
Red Chilli Powder: as needed
Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
Mustard Seeds: 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds: 1/2 tsp
Dried Red Chillies : 1
Hing : 1/8 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil : 1 tbsp
Method:
1. Soak
the tamarind in water and squeeze well
to extract the juice and set aside.
2. Wash the toor dal and cook for 3 – 4
whistles with a half cup of water. Heat a teaspoon of oil in a vessel.
3. Add the onion pieces and fry for a minute. Add the chopped tomato,
chopped amaranth leaves, turmeric and water to it. Cover with a lid and
let it cook completely.
4. Mash the cooked toor dal and set aside.
5. After
the amaranth leaves gets cooked, add the mashed dal, tamarind extract,
sambar powder, red chilli powder, jaggery and water (adjust to desired
consistency).
6. Mix well and allow the sambar to boil and thicken.
7. Then
add the coconut powder and boil for 1 – 2 minutes. Remove from the
flame and set aside.
8. Heat two teaspoons of oil in a pan for seasoning.
Add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds and let them splutter.
9. Then add
the red chilli and hing and stir for a couple of seconds. Add this to
the sambar and combine well. Serve with rice or idli.
If you are looking for
more recipes with amaranth leaves then do check this thotakura pulusu kura, corn amaranth pakora, amaranth dal, amaranth moong curry and amaranth red chori beans curry.
You might also like to check these recipes:
- Aloo Palak Gravy
- Vazhakka Thoran
- Taro Root Fry
- Gujarati Dal
- Drumstick Rasam
- Vellarikka Pulissery
- Aviyal Recipe
Torviewtoronto says
July 18, 2013 at 10:25 pmsambar looks wonderful
divya says
July 18, 2013 at 10:56 pmso tempting… just love it…
Veena Theagarajan says
July 18, 2013 at 11:07 pmhealthy sambar my son loves it
Shylaja Praveen says
July 19, 2013 at 2:49 amLooks so tempting
Akila says
July 19, 2013 at 3:34 ami always treasure this sambar….
prethika skm says
July 19, 2013 at 4:24 amTempting Sambar
Kalpana Sareesh says
July 19, 2013 at 5:45 amwoo looks yumm
Shree says
July 19, 2013 at 6:18 ambeautiful pics !
Swasthi Blank says
July 19, 2013 at 6:20 amScrumptious meal Hari. Healthy sambar. nice clicks too
Sayantani says
July 19, 2013 at 8:01 amlove your traditional recipes. this one looks perfect with such healthy addition of greens.
Vimitha Anand says
July 19, 2013 at 9:05 amSambar looks so healthy and yum
Kaveri Venkatesh says
July 19, 2013 at 9:29 amMmmm…delicious sambar..beautiful clicks
Vidya Chandrahas says
July 19, 2013 at 2:21 pmTempting sambhar… interesting with greens.
VineelaSiva says
July 19, 2013 at 4:43 pmChandhana meeru different sambar's bhale tasty ga unnayi.
Subha Subramanian says
July 21, 2013 at 5:52 amNice sambhar………Healthy one.
Subha Subramanian says
July 21, 2013 at 5:52 amNice sambhar!!!!!! Healthy one…..
kumars kitchen says
July 21, 2013 at 6:22 amhave made sambhar with greens many times but will try this new version soon, looks so satisfying 🙂
Chitz says
July 22, 2013 at 1:29 pmYummy & healthy sambar 🙂
Spandana says
July 22, 2013 at 8:09 pmThis is the first time I heard abt sambar with thota koora…
Looks very delicious and seems to be very healthy too.. I shud definitely try this.