Saturday, 29 March 2014

Radish Sambhar, Beans and carrot thoran

Hello,  

Good morning. Thank you folks for sharing my recipes to your dear ones. Its an honour to me.  Today I will share with you yet another delicious Sambhar made with Radish (Mooli) We make sambhar out if a number of vegetables, we have baby onion and muringakai (drum stick) sambhar, pumpkin, avarakkai, white pumpkin sambhar, Bindi sambhar and the list is endless! In Sambhar also there are two varieties one with coconut(Tenga arachuvitta sambhar) another without coconut.(Podi potta sambhar)

You must be wondering in all my recipes I pressure cook tamarind. The reason is very simple when you add water and pressure cook tamarind you can extract good amount of pulp and you have to use less tamarind!

Radish Sambhar





Ingredients

Radish(mulanki or mooli) - 4 (wash, peel and cut into circles)
Tamarind - a gooseberry size (cook and extract pulp)
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
salt as required

Tuvar dal - 1/2 cup
Soak in water add turmeric and pressure cook for 2 whistles) 

For the tadka

Ghee/sunflower oil - 2 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
hing powder - 1/4 tsp
meethi seeds - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves - a few

Method of Preparation

In two separate vessels(use cooker vessels) cook tuvar dal and raddish by adding a little turmeric. In the vegetable vessel itself keep tamarind in a small bowl add enough water. Allow it to cook for 2 whistles. 

Remove the tamarind and extract pulp. Keep aside. 

In katchatti add cooked mooli, salt and tamarind pulp. Mix two tsp of sambhar powder allow it to mix well. Now add cooked tuvar dal. Allow the sambhar to boil for 2 - 3 minutes.

In a small pan pour ghee add mustard(allow it to splutter) and methi, add hing powder, one broken chilly and curry leaves. Pour in the prepared sambhar. 



Beans and carrot thoran





Ingredients

Beans - 1/2 kg
carrot - 2
coconut - 2 tbsp
green chilly - 2

For the tadka

Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp
mustard seed - 1 tsp
urad dal - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves - a few
red chilly - 1 broken

Method of Preparation

Wash trim and chop beans into small pieces. wash, peel and chop carrot. In a thick bottom pan pour oil. Add mustard seed(allow it to splutter) urad dal and broken chilly. Add curry leaves. Now add chopped vegetables. Mix well add salt allow it to cook in high flame. stirring occasionally. In a mixer grind grated coconut and green chilly. Add this to the cooked vegetables mix well and off stove. Serve hot with raddish sambhar. 

Tamarind pulp extraction

























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