Kobbari Charu Recipe – Coconut Milk & Dal Sambar Recipe

Ingredients

• 2-1/2 cups Coconut milk
• 1 cup Water
• 1/4 cup Roasted Gram Dal (Pottukadalai)
• 8 Green Chillies adjustable
• 1 teaspoon Oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds (Rai/ Kadugu)
• 1/2 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
• 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
• Curry leaves few
• Salt to taste
• Coriander (Dhania) Leaves few sprigs, chopped (optional)

Steps

1. Start preparing Kobbari Chaaru Recipe (Coconut Milk & Dal Sambar) by preparing coconut milk. Scrape the white flesh of half of the freshly opened coconut and grind in a blenderusing around 2 cups of water.
2. Strain with a sieve to extract coconut milk.
3. Grind the roasted chana dal along with green chillies into a fine paste in a Mixer adding water as required and set aside until required.
4. Now heat a Kadaiwith oil. Add mustard, cumin seeds and curry leaves. Let them splutter for few seconds.Add turmeric, water, coconut milk, salt and bring this to boil.
5. As soon as it starts boiling, stir in the ground dal paste and mix well. Make sure that there are no lumps, by stirring while you add the paste.
6. Bring the mixture to boil and at this stage, it resembles kadhi.Lastly, sprinkle with coriander leaves and turn off the heat.
7. Scrumptious Kobbari Chaaru Recipe (Coconut Milk & Dal Sambar) is ready to be served for lunch with steamed rice and fryum (Akki Peni sandige) or just Phulka Recipe (Roti/Chapati) – Puffed Indian Bread.