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Sambar

Amma's notebook · Breakfast, snacks & starters, page 2

Toor dal simmered with okra, brinjal, pearl onions and tamarind, finished with a tempering.

Sambar, in Amma's handwriting
Amma's original. Tap to open full size.

Method

  1. Boil the toor dal.
  2. Add tomatoes, bhendi, baigan and pearl onions and boil.
  3. Add tamarind juice and sambar masala with the regular masalas. Bring to a boil.
  4. Finish with a bhagar (tempering).

Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.

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