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Mangalore Cucumber Sambar | Dosakaya Sambar | Sambar Powder | How to make Sambar

Curries | vegetarian

  • Prep Time 5 Mins
  • Cook Time 30 Mins
  • Servings 6

Ingredients

  • For Sambar Masala
  • 1 tbsp Bengal Gram
  • 1 tbsp Black Gram
  • 1 tsp Cumin seeds
  • 1.5 tbsp Coriander seeds
  • 1/2 tsp Black Pepper
  • 1/4 tsp Fenugreek
  • 1 Sprig Curry leaves
  • 6 Badiga Red Chillies (It’s a variety of Red Chilli)
  • 3 - 5 Guntur Red Chilli
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 1/4 cup Coconut
  • For Sambar
  • 1/4 cup Red Gram (Soaked for 1 hr)
  • 1.5 cup Water (For boiling Lentil/Dal)
  • Tamarind – Lemon sized ball
  • 1/4 tsp Turmeric
  • Salt
  • 1 Yellow Cucumber (150 gms)
  • 1 Onion (Cut into big pieces)
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 2 Green Chillies (slit)
  • 2 tsp Jaggery
  • Coriander – Small bunch
  • 1 Sprig Curry Leaves
  • 400 ml Water
  • Seasoning
  • 2 tsp Oil
  • 1 tsp Mustard
  • 3 Red Chillies
  • 1/4 tsp Asafoetida (Hing)
  • 2 Sprigs Curry leaves

Instructions

  1. Boil the Soaked Toor Dal adding water in a pressure cooker on a medium flame until it's soft and smooth. Mash it and keep it aside.
  2. Roast all the masala ingredients on a low flame until they turn aromatic
  3. Grind the above fried masala ingredients with desiccated Coconut and a little water, make a fine smooth paste.
  4. Take a big vessel, add Oil and heat it. Now add Onion pieces and deseeded Cucumber pieces and fry for one minute
  5. Add 250ml Water, Salt and Turmeric and boil for 10 minutes.
  6. After 10 min,s add boiled/smoothly mashed Toor Dal (Lentils), Sambar Masala Paste, 125 ml Water, Curry leaves, slit Green Chillies and allow the Sambar to boil on a medium flame for about 15 mins.
  7. Now for seasoning, heat Oil and add Mustard. After the Mustard seeds crackle, add and fry Red Chillies, Asafoetida (Hing), Curry Leaves and pour it on the Sambar. Your excellent “Mangalore Cucumber Sambar” is ready to eat with Rice along with some Fried flour wafers (Paapad).
  8. After 15 mins, the Sambar turns aromatic, now add Jaggery, Coriander Leaves and let it boil for another 5 mins and remove it from the stove.