easy tomato sambar recipe | thakkali sambar | tomato sambar for idli & dosa
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Category: sambar
- Cuisine: tamil nadu
Ingredients
for pressure cooking:
- 2 400 gm tomato, chopped
- ½ cup toor dal (washed)
- 2 green chilli (slit)
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- 1½ cup water
for sambar:
- ½ onion (thinly sliced)
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup tamarind extract
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp sambar powder
for tempering:
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- 1 dried red chilli
- few curry leaves
Method
- firstly in a pressure cook 2 tomato, ½ cup toor dal, 2 green chilli, ½ tsp turmeric and 1½ cup water and for 5 whistles.
- in a kadai, boil ½ onion in ½ cup water for 5 minutes.
- pour in cooked dal, ¼ cup tamarind extract and 1 tsp salt. mix well.
- boil for 8 minutes or till tamarind extract gets cooked completely.
- further add 2 tbsp sambar powder and mix continuously without forming lumps.
- boil for 5 minutes or till sambar gets cooked well.
- meanwhile prepare tempering by heating 2 tsp oil.
- add in 1 tsp mustard, pinch of hing, 1 dried red chilli and few curry leaves.
- allow the tempering to splutter.
- pour the tempering over sambar and mix well.
- finally, serve tomato sambar or thakkali sambar with rice, dosa or idli.
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.