Drumstick Sambar Recipe - Simple One pot recipe to Nourish and Heal
Drumstick Sambar or Murungakkai Sambar is a highly nutritious, delicious, and simple recipe. It is a must meal addition for heart patients, Diabetics, Women, and Children. With simple ingredients and minimum level of preparation, this recipe is a quick turnaround, but very satisfying.
Servings: 4 people
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Toor Daal Can also be replaced by Split and Peeled Mung Daal.
- 2 Inch Seedless Tamarind Or add 1½ tsp Tamarind paste.
- 1½ tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1½ tsp Cumin seeds
- 2 tbsp Ghee Replace with Coconut oil, or peanut oil, or Sesame oil
- 1 inch Fresh Ginger root pounded or finely chopped
- 1 Pinch Asafetida
- 1½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 2 tsp Sambar Powder Optional
- 1½ tsp Coriander seeds powder
- 2 Medium Dried Red Chilli Optional. Remove it or add more per your taste.
- 4 cloves Garlic finely chopped
- 1 Medium Onion finely chopped
- 4 Medium Drumstick pods
- 2 Springs Fresh curry leaves
- 2 tsp Rock salt to Taste
Instructions
Prepare Drumsticks
- Wash and pat dry the drumstick pods.
- Lightly scrape and peel the skin to remove any hardy parts
- Cut into small 3-4 inch pieces
Preparing Drumstick Sambar
- Wash the toor daal properly and soak in water, equal to 4 times volume of the daal.
- Heat the pressure cooker on medium heat.
- Add oil and let it turn hot. Once the oil is hot, add Asafetida, Mustard Seeds, Cumin Seeds, and Red Chilli.
- When the seeds start to splutter, add curry leaves, garlic, ginger, and onion.
- Stir till the mix turns golden brown.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, sambar powder, coriander seeds powder. Mix well for few seconds.
- Add soaked toor daal along with 4 times water.
- Add in Tamarind and cut and clean Drumstick pods.
- Close the pressure cooker and cook till 2-3 whistles.
- Serve hot with steamed rice or freshly made Chapati.
- Enjoy!