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Healthy Idli sambar

Kavita Ns
Kavita Ns @food_ish
Mumbai

Idli sambar is a well known south indian cuisine packed with proteins and fibre from lentils and a boost of vitamins and capsicum from the vegetables. A full filling and delicious recipe that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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Idli sambar is a well known south indian cuisine packed with proteins and fibre from lentils and a boost of vitamins and capsicum from the vegetables. A full filling and delicious recipe that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
#cr
#कॉम्बो
# combo
# comborecipe

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Healthy Idli sambar

Kavita Ns
Kavita Ns @food_ish
Mumbai

Idli sambar is a well known south indian cuisine packed with proteins and fibre from lentils and a boost of vitamins and capsicum from the vegetables. A full filling and delicious recipe that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
#cr
#कॉम्बो
# combo
# comborecipe

Idli sambar is a well known south indian cuisine packed with proteins and fibre from lentils and a boost of vitamins and capsicum from the vegetables. A full filling and delicious recipe that can be prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
#cr
#कॉम्बो
# combo
# comborecipe

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Ingredients

1 hour
4 people
  • sambar
  • 1/2 cuptoor dal
  • Water
  • Salt
  • Turmeric powder (1/2 tsp +1 tsp)
  • 1/4 tspif hing powder
  • 2 tablespoonsambar powder
  • 1 teaspoonMustard seeds
  • 5-7Curry leaves
  • 2-3red dry chillies
  • 8-10 piecesdrumsticks
  • 5-6bhindi or ladyfingers
  • 3medium tomatoes chopped
  • 1 teaspoondry mango powder
  • 1 teaspoonjaggery
  • idlis
  • 3 cupsrice
  • 1 cupurad dal (i have used dal with skin)
  • 5-6methi seeds
  • 1 cuppoha or leftover cooked rice
  • Salt
  • Water
  • chutney
  • 1/4 cupfresh coconut grated or sliced
  • 4-5green chillies
  • 1 tablespoonDalia or roasted chana
  • Handfulcorriander leaves
  • Salt
  • 1 tspoil
  • 1 tspmustard seeds
  • 5-7curry leaves
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1 hour
  1. 1

    Wash the urad dal and rice along with methi seeds. Soak for minimum 5 hours and grind into fine paste. Wash and soak poha for 10 mins and grind it into fine paste and add to the rice dal mixture. Keep this mixture for 8 hours or overnight for fermention.

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  2. 2

    For making idlis, add salt to the fermented batter and check for the consistency and add water accordingly. Batter should be of flowing consistency..not too thick or thin.
    Keep the idli steamer on high flame with water and lemon slice in the bottom.
    Grease the idli plates and pour the batter into the idli moulds.
    Place the plates into the steamer and steam for 20 mins on high.

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  3. 3

    For the sambar, boil the toor dal along with some salt to taste and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder.

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  4. 4

    Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, hing,red chillies, Curry leaves, drumsticks,bhindi, tomatoes, turmeric powder, sambar masala. Add the boiled dal, salt, mango powder, jaggery. Once sambar is boiled, let it simmer for 5 mins before you switch off the gas flame.

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    A picture of step 4 of Healthy Idli sambar.
    A picture of step 4 of Healthy Idli sambar.
  5. 5

    For the chutney, add coconut, green chillies, corriander leaves, Dalia, salt, and little water to the mixer pot and grind into a fine paste.
    Heat oil in a tadka pan. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves. Switch off the flame and add the tadka to the chutney.

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    A picture of step 5 of Healthy Idli sambar.
    A picture of step 5 of Healthy Idli sambar.
  6. 6

    Serve hot.

  7. 7

    Notes- when u use urad dal with skin, the color of the idlis turn a bit dark or greyish but the taste is the same as white idlis.
    Adding bhindi to the sambar makes it more delicious and gives a nice texture to it.

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Kavita Ns @food_ish
on April 24, 2021 18:39
Mumbai
Connect with me on my insta handle : https://www.instagram.com/food_ishkitchen/I am a home chef, a SAHM, mother of two cuties. I love cooking, baking, food photography, experimenting new recipes and keeping hold of traditional recipes that I relished as a kid from my grandmother and mother's kitchen.
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Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27
April 25, 2021 13:04
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