My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar
My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, my mom's soothing okra sambar. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vendakkai Sambar is a delicious sambar made with okra. Okra sambar goes very well with plain steamed rice or rava idli or dosa. Accompany a side veggie dish like a poriyal or a veggie roast and you have a delicious South Indian meal.

My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my mom's soothing okra sambar using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar:
  1. Make ready 250 gms okra cut into cubes
  2. Get 2 cups tamarind water
  3. Make ready As needed: Salt
  4. Prepare 3-4 tablespoons gingelly oil
  5. Take 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  6. Take Seasoning
  7. Prepare 1 tsp Mustard seeds
  8. Make ready 1 tsp chana dal
  9. Prepare 2 tsp urad dal
  10. Get 1/4 tsp asafoetida/hing
  11. Make ready 2 Green chillies slit lengthwise
  12. Prepare 1 sprig curry leaves

This is my mom in law's basic sambar recipe for rice in which we use lady's finger @ okra. Last week a reader mailed me to blog basic sambar & vathakuzhambu recipes. So i thought of sharing this recipe which might be useful for Tamil new year lunch menu too. As a southindian sambar is one of our staple dish, we make it with a whole lot of vegetables, frankly we make sambar with any vegetables.

Instructions to make My Mom's Soothing Okra Sambar:
  1. In a pot, add oil and put in the items given under seasoning section. Wait till the dals become golden brown.
  2. Add in the chopped okra and mix well. Toss until okra is cooked well to about 80%. Make sure it is not completely cooked as it turns mushy.
  3. Add in the tamarind water and let it boil covered until the raw smell goes off. Now, add in turmeric powder along with required amount of salt.
  4. Finally, when all the raw smell have gone of turmeric, turn off heat and close it until serving.
  5. Tip: note that this sambar is supposed to be watery as against the usual thick varieties. The runny texture and the thick okra blend well with rice. The more thicker it becomes, the proper taste of okra is lost. Also, add no other seasoning like sambar powder or cilantro/coriander leaves. They take the authentic taste away from this recipe.

We have sambar with dosa, idlis, rice. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how it turned out. My mom makes it perfectly and she even says it is perfect for beginners in cooking as it comes out easily tasty, how ever you do small mistakes. Sur.ly for Wordpress Sur.ly plugin for Wordpress is free of charge. Sur.ly for Drupal Sur.ly extension for both major Drupal version is free of charge.

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