Quick sambar recipe | How to make sambar in 10 minutes | Tasty sambar in less time
By Latha on Nov 13th, 2019
10 minute quick sambar recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This sambar can be prepared in very less time. It hardly takes 10 -15 miutes to prepare. This quick sambar is prepared using onion, tomato, capsicum, carrot and fresh ground masala. Instead of fresh ground masala, you can use sambar powder also.
Mixed vegetables are used in this sambar, which cooks faster. Among them you can skip either capsicum or carrot. You can try this sambar using other fast cooking vegetables too.
I have not cooked toor dal in this recipe. Instead I have roasted it along with other ingredients. Roasting the dal and then grinding with other masala ingredients gives a very nice unique taste to the sambar. Also I have added jaggery in this recipe. Some people like jaggery in sambar but some people don't prefer it. What I suggest is adjust the jaggery as per your taste but don't skip it. You can adjust tamarind and salt also as per your taste.
If you are looking for more sambar recipes then do check my menaskai, basale soppu sambar, snakegourd kootu, amaranthus or harive soppina huli, dill leaves rasam, bendekayi kayirasa, massoppu, yellow cucumber sambar, tomato rasam, recipes from doddapatre and okra sambar recipes.
I have made a video on this sambar recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 small capsicum
- 1 tomato
- Big pinch turmeric powder
- Salt as per your taste
- 1/2 - 1 tsp jaggery (optional but recommended)
- One marble sized tamarind
- Some coriander leaves
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
Ingredients for masala: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 cup grated coconut
- 2 - 4 red chilli
- 1 tsp gram dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 3 tsp toor dal
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1/4 tsp jeera or cumin seeds
- 10 - 12 fenugreek seeds
- 1 tsp cooking oil
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 red chili
- 5 - 6 curry leaves
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cooking oil
Instruction for making quick sambar:
- Take all the ingredients listed under "for masala" like red chili, gram dal, urad dal, toor dal, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds in a pan as per the measurement. Also add in a tsp of oil.
- Roast the ingredients under low medium flame. Fry until dal turns brown but take care not to burn any of them. Once done, take them out and keep it aside.
- Next in the same pan heat 1 tbsp of oil. Add in chopped onion and fry for few seconds.
- Followed by add in thinly chopped carrot and fry for few more seconds.
- Followed by add in chopped capsicum and fry for few more seconds.
- Lastly add in chopped tomato and fry for few more seconds.
- Add in turmeric powder, salt and tamarind juice.
- Add in around 1 cup of water. Increase the flame and bring it to boil.
- Close the lid and allow it to cook until soft under medium flame.
- Meanwhile take roasted ingredients in a mixie jar. Grind it until fine along with grated coconut and required water.
- Add in ground masala into the cooked vegetables. Add in required water and adjust the consistency.
- Mix it well and bring it to boil. Add in coriander leaves and continue boiling under low flame for a minute.
- Add in little jaggery. Adjust the jaggery as per your taste. Adding jaggery is optional. Switch off the stove.
- Prepare seasoning with oil, red chili, mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafoetida. Serve tasty 10 minute quick sambar recipe with hot rice.
- Pour it over the sambar. Serve it with dosa, idli or rice.
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