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    Home » Recipes » Kids recipes

    Mini Idli sambar recipe | Ghee idli sambar

    January 13, 2014 by Raks Anand 25 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Mini idli sambar - Learn tips and tricks to get a drinkable, mild flavorful sambar for mini idlis!

    mini idli sambar
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    I know I could not post any new recipes at all last week, I think most of you know my in-laws were here and I spent most of my free time together with the family and gave a break myself from blogging and enjoyed family time to the fullest 🙂.

    I won’t say I was very busy with works, as everyone shared the works. So I had free time, but we spent those time playing card games, board games along with Aj. Yesterday they left SG and we 3 are again left here with our routines.

    Aj went to school and Vj went to office and I am back to blogging. Though I felt sad, I am so much worried about Aj how he is going to take this. He was all tears when we came back to home and he could not forget the fun time he had all these days.

    I had tough time consoling him, actually, I don't know how to😐. Somehow today he went school and hopefully that could deviate him and only when he comes back, it wont be the same. Will take some time for him sure.

    And I know most of you will be busy with the pongal cleaning works and planning for pongal. Though I don’t have any special recipe for pongal this time, I thought to break my silence with this simple post.

    Please go through the recipe for learning tips and tricks for getting delicious sambar that can be perfect for mini idlis.

    WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY PONGAL & MAKAR SANKRANTI

    sambar for mini idli

    Tips for making mini idlies:

    • Refer this post for making idli batter. Grind the rice a little coarse. This will make the idli textured perfect to absorb the sambar.
    • Either sambar or the idlis should be hot for perfect absorbing.
    • Do not soak for long time and keep as it will become soggy and mushy. Just do it 5 or 10 mins before.

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    mini idli sambar
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    Mini idli sambar recipe

    Mini idli sambar - Learn tips and tricks to get a drinkable, mild flavorful sambar for mini idlis!
    Course Breakfast
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 15 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Servings 4
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup Toor dal
    • 2 tablespoon Tamarind extract thick
    • 2 Tomato
    • 3 Green chillis
    • 1 teaspoon Sambar powder
    • ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
    • 2 tablespoon Coriander leaves chopped
    • 15 Small onion
    • 1 Red chilli
    • 1 tablespoon Ghee

    To temper

    • 2 teaspoon Ghee
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds/ jeera
    • 1 Curry leaves sprig
    • ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida / Hing
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    Instructions

    • Soak tamarind and pressure cook dal for 4-5 whistles with enough water, turmeric, a pinch of asafoetida and a red chilli.
    • Extract tamarind juice from the soaked tamarind.
    • Mash the dal well once done. Heat kadai, temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order.
    • Add peeled small onions, slit green chillis and fry for a minute.
    • Add chopped tomatoes and a pinch of salt and fry until tomatoes turn soft.
    • Add enough water with tamarind juice and bring to boil.
    • Add turmeric, sambar powder and required salt.
    • Bring to boil and add chopped coriander leaves. Boil for 3 minutes.
    • Add cooked dal and mix well. You can add a pinch of jaggery if you want at this stage.
    • Bring to boil and boil for 2 minutes in medium flame. Top with ghee.

    Notes

    • The sambar should be more with tomatoes and less tamarind.
    • Add salt carefully so that the sambar is drinkable.
    • Ghee is perfect for tempering this sambar and topping too.
    • Coriander leaves, ghee adds a lot of flavor to this sambar. So do not miss it.
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    Method

    1. Soak tamarind and pressure cook dal for 4-5 whistles with enough water, turmeric, a pinch of asafoetida and a red chilli. Extract tamarind juice from the soaked tamarind. 

    2. Mash the dal well once done. Heat kadai, temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table in order. Add peeled small onions, slit green chillies and fry for a minute.

    saute onion

    3. Add chopped tomatoes and a pinch of salt and fry until tomatoes turn soft.

    saute tomato

    4. Add enough water with tamarind juice and bring to boil. Add turmeric, sambar powder and required salt. Bring to boil and add chopped coriander leaves. Boil for 3 minutes.

    boil

    5. Add cooked dal and mix well. You can add a pinch of jaggery if you want at this stage. Bring to boil and boil for 2 minutes in medium flame. Top with ghee.

    idli sambar

    Enjoy hot for evening snack or as dinner. We love it for a dinner when ever we want something special for dinner, when we have only idli batter.

    mini idli
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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Gayathri Sudharson

      January 13, 2014 at 3:12 am

      Looks delicious. Pictures are making me drool.

      Reply
    2. MSUSMA

      January 13, 2014 at 4:16 am

      sambhar idlies are drool worthy

      Reply
    3. Giri

      January 13, 2014 at 4:46 am

      Amazing

      Reply
    4. Nagalakshmi V

      January 13, 2014 at 5:46 am

      good to see you back 🙂

      Reply
    5. Dipti Joshi

      January 13, 2014 at 6:25 am

      Mouthwatering pics! Will try this sambar recipe soon.

      Reply
    6. Kaveri Venkatesh

      January 13, 2014 at 7:26 am

      Make me drool, early in the morning...so inviting

      Reply
    7. anusha praveen

      January 13, 2014 at 8:48 am

      i love this and order it anytime i visit a restaurant. looks very inviting

      Reply
    8. Anonymous

      January 13, 2014 at 11:34 am

      Drool worthy!! I love to eat ghee-sambar-idly anytime.

      Reply
    9. M D

      January 13, 2014 at 4:00 pm

      This looks so tempting and delicious. Drooling!

      Reply
    10. Shama Nagarajan

      January 14, 2014 at 11:34 am

      tempting idlis....

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        November 22, 2021 at 6:10 pm

        Thanks a lot for the feedback 🙂

        Reply
    11. Divya Kudua

      January 14, 2014 at 1:55 pm

      Yummy..have never tried making mini-idlies,they look super cute.We always order this whenever we go to Sangeetha restaurant.Your platter however looks way better than that 🙂 Happy Pongal 🙂

      Reply
    12. Recipe world

      January 14, 2014 at 6:50 pm

      Picture itself says how delicious the idlis are! Nice recipe and lovely clicks dear..

      Reply
    13. vibhasri

      January 15, 2014 at 5:39 am

      When should the green chillies be added?? You havent mentioned it anywhere if im not wrong...

      Reply
    14. Kalpana Sareesh

      January 15, 2014 at 7:32 am

      hmm love it.. scrumptious

      Reply
    15. Bakula Ts

      February 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm

      in ingredients list green chillies has been mentioned but while preparing not mentioned wen to add green chillies

      Reply
    16. Raks anand

      February 25, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      Sorry, I have edited, it has to be added along the onions

      Reply
    17. sha

      May 07, 2014 at 7:27 am

      ur recipes r really superb...the variety of items u do for per servings is amazing even am trying to present like u now a days..keep doing the good work.. hw u r managing to prepare so many items tell me ur plan abt it..

      Reply
    18. ArunMani

      July 07, 2014 at 8:06 am

      Awesome...It came very well.....

      Reply
    19. ArunMani

      July 07, 2014 at 8:06 am

      Awesome....It came Really nice

      Reply
    20. Mohamed Ramadhan

      October 19, 2014 at 7:29 am

      Mashallah it has come good
      I have an question can we add gingelly oil instead of ghee

      Reply
    21. Raks anand

      October 19, 2014 at 7:33 am

      Sure yes

      Reply
    22. Dhivya Selvanathan

      March 28, 2016 at 3:09 am

      Going to try tis tonight

      Reply
    23. Asha

      December 12, 2017 at 1:32 am

      Hi Raks,

      Thanks for sharing the recipe. Could you please tell me where you purchased the mini idli plate from? The plate I have can make 18 idlis but they come out very small - almost like a mini dosa. Yours looks like a full bodied mini-idli.

      Many thanks

      Reply
    24. Raks Kitchen

      December 12, 2017 at 1:55 am

      This is also the same 18 mini idli plate. Slightly stir the batter before pouring so that u get it bit more dense. I have another idli plate which have 5 shallows per plate. I got it from an exhibition but you will sure get in vessel shops like saravana stores, Ratna stores in T nagar, chennai.

      Reply

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