mini idli sambar | tiffin idli sambar | bullet idli sambar
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 3 Servings
- Category: sambar
- Cuisine: south indian
Ingredients
- 1 cup toor daal
- 2 to matoes
- ½ onion
- few curry leaves
- 1 inch ginger
- few coriander leaves
- 2 green chillies
- ½ lemon
seasoning ingredients
- 3 tsp ghee
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- ½ split urad dal
- 1 dried red chilli
- pinch hing
- few curry leaves
Method
- firstly, wash and rinse the dal and put into a pressure cooker. in the same cooker add tomatoes and turmeric powder. pressure cook for 4 whistles.
- once the pressure releases from the cooker, whisk the dal and tomatoes well.
- meanwhile, chop onions, coriander leaves, ginger and chilli and keep them aside.
- bullet idli sambar
- furthermore, in a pan, add 1 tsp of oil. to the same pan add onions and fry them till golden brown.
- now add curry leaves, ginger and chilli. fry for a minute.
- add smashed daal to the kadai and bring to a boil.
- additionally, season with salt and chilli powder.
- bring it to boil. add water to maintain the consistency of sambar. boil it for 5 mins.
- furthermore, garnish with coriander leaves and lemon juice, add a tsp of ghee and switch off.
- prepare the tempering and add it over sambar.
- finally, your tiffin sambar is ready. serve it with bullet idli's dipped in this sambar.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.