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Home » SNACKS » Sambar vadai recipe (With hotel sambar recipe)

Sambar vadai recipe (With hotel sambar recipe)

September 22, 2015 by Raks Anand 13 Comments /

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Sambar vadai is urad dal vadai, soaked in mild and flavourful sambar. I recently only developed taste for sambar vada, especially the one from Murugan idli shop. After their chutneys, I like their sambar vada. I have it often but the best sambar vada here in Singapore is from Nalan restaurant near Funan IT mall. Their sambar is the best and love their sambar vada a lot. Both these restaurants inspire me to try sambar vada at home. Mostly I make thayir vadai or rasam vadai only. Lazy to make sambar for sambar vadai 😛.

These days I soak only less urad dal and grind for festivals as it always goes for waste. We cook lot of things and it will be heavy to eat vadai too on top of it. This time for Ganesh Chaturthi I soaked more and ground in wet grinder especially to try sambar vada. Co incidentally, I saw the same in Vj TV show Samayal samyal. I have heard about making sambar by cooking raw onions, but never tried as I thought it won’t smell good. When I saw in Tv, I thought why not give it a try and to my surprise it turned out really good. I adapted the recipe but only changed the method of making here and there to my convenience. And I know I am  going to make this often here after until I get bored of this. You can either make vadas especially for making sambar vada or recylce the vadais already made too 😁. Just soak in hot water, make sambar and soak the vada in it.
 Video for sambar vadai

Sambar vadai recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Breakfast
Prep Time: 3 hrs soaking time + 30 mins    |  Cook time: 35 mins     |  serves: 6

Ingredients for sambar

Toor dal – 1/2 cup


Small onion – 1/2 cup


Tomato – 1


Green chilli – 2


Tamarind – 1 tsp tightly packed


Sambar powder – 3 tsp, heaped


Red chilli powder – 1 tsp


Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp


Asafoetida powder – 1/4 tsp


Coriander leaves , chopped – 2 tbsp


Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Jaggery or sugar – 1/2 tsp


Ghee – 1 tsp


Oil – 1 tbsp


Mustard – 3/4 tsp


Salt – As needed


For vadai

Urad dal – 1/2 cup


Black pepper – 1 tsp, powdered coarsely


Cumin seeds – 1 tsp


Salt – as needed


Asafoetida – a pinch optional

Method

  1. Refer this post for detailed post with tips and tricks for making ulundu vadai. For making vada, soak urad dal for 3 hrs and grind to a smooth paste with little water. Add salt, asafoetida and mix well.
  2. 1-batter

  3. Heat oil, grease your hands with water and make a ball out of it. Make a hole in the centre.
  4. 2-shape

  5. Drop in hot oil and cook in medium flame both sides until golden and crisp.
  6. 3-fry

  7. Drain in paper towel. Soak the vada in hot water. Add little salt in the water. Let it get soaked.
  8. 4-soak

  9. For sambar, pressure cook toor dal with 1 & 1/2 cups of water for 4 whistles in medium flame. Once done, mash it well. Add turmeric, red chilli, finely chopped tomato, peeled small onion, slit green chillies, curry leaves, tamarind extract. Soak tamarind in hot water for 1/2 hour and extract juice with a cup of water.
  10. 5-cook

  11. Pressure cook for a whistle. In a kadai, splutter mustard and lower the flame. Add sambar powder and quickly give it a stir.
  12. 6-temper

  13. Add the pressure cooked dal mixture to it.Mix well and adjust water consistency. You may have to add 1 & 1/2 cups water to 2 cups approximately. Bring to boil and add coriander leaves, asafoetida powder, jaggery or sugar and top with ghee. Switch off the flame.
  14. 7-mix

  15. Now gently squeeze the excess water in the soaked vada, without changing its shape and arrange in the serving bowl. Add hot sambar over it. Garnish with finely chopped onions before serving.
  16. 8-pour

Notes

    • The sambar amount given here may give more than needed for sambar vadai.
    • Number of vadais depend on urad dal quality, if you grind in grinder or mixer.
    • Salt and tamarind should be less in this sambar so that the sambar is drinkable.
    • Adding ghee is optional.
    • Take care not to burn the sambar powder.
    • Since we fry the sambar powder in oil, it won’t be that much spicy, so if you want to add spice increase red chilli powder and green chilli.
    • The urad dal can be slightly on coarse side. This will give you firm vadai.
    • The sambar gets thickened as it cools, so make sure the consistency is according to that.

Always serve hot! Add raw onions just before serving. We all  loved it and for the first time Aj too  ate it.
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Comments

  1. Unknown

    September 22, 2015 at 1:54 am

    Thanks for the recipe..will try soon 🙂 looks yummm

    Reply
  2. jeyashri suresh

    September 22, 2015 at 1:54 am

    The moment I hear the word sambar vada it brings back lot of memories. It reminds me of my childhood days spent with my dad. Wish one day I should get a courage and control my emotions to make this and blog it . Very beautiful post. Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  3. Rekharamesh

    September 22, 2015 at 2:29 am

    Yummy while seeing pics & video .. Soon I will make try !!! Thku raje

    Reply
  4. Gayathri Ramanan

    September 22, 2015 at 2:38 am

    Love sambar vadai. Last picture looks tempting with raw onion on top

    Reply
  5. Aksh

    September 22, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    What sambhar is this? I saw only onions in the video

    Reply
  6. Aksh

    September 22, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    What sambhar is this? I saw only onions in the video

    Reply
  7. Traditionally Modern Food

    September 22, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    My absolute favorite:-) only for vetha kuzhambu I cook dbar Powder like this.. Should try sambar this way.. Sambar Vadai looks perfect Raji

    Reply
  8. ARC

    September 23, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    Yummy!! Tempting,,,Video Version Too good

    Reply
  9. Akila Dilip

    January 12, 2016 at 3:12 am

    Mouth watering recipe this reminds me of school days I use to go Saravana Bhavan yo have this sambar vadai

    Reply
  10. Gurleen Kaur

    December 24, 2020 at 10:19 am

    Hello, I am a big fan of your recipes! I am going to prepare these Vada in afternoon for a dinner get together for which I need to take them over to a friends house. How can I warm them up before serving, would it be possible in a microwave and if so how long ?

    Reply
    • Raks Anand

      December 24, 2020 at 2:16 pm

      Microwaving could make it slightly hard outer layer if it’s over done. So you have to carefully reheat. Some might get heated fast and get overdone while some might remain soft. So make sure to reheat in 30 seconds first and later increase 10 secs at a time changing the vada position each time. Hope this helps.
      I can also suggest to plan something like sambar vada, curd vada or rasam vada for such occasions so that it will be easy to manage.

      Reply
  11. Gurleen Kaur

    December 24, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    Hello Raks,
    Thanks for your prompt reply!
    I am going to serve with Sambar and coconut chutney. But just can’t serve straight after cooking that’s all! So I will microwave few vada at a time just for 20-30 seconds as you suggested! I might even do a trial at home to see if it works.

    Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy New Years! Cheers

    Reply
    • Raks Anand

      December 25, 2020 at 12:00 am

      That’s great. Happy New year to you too!

      Reply

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