Hotel sambar, Instant pot hotel sambar
Hotel sambar, an easy no grind hotel style sambar in instant pot. Easily adaptable for regular pressure cooker too. Quick video recipe.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Toor dal
- ¼ cup Moong dal
- ¼ teaspoon Ghee
- 2 cups Water
- ½ cup tamarind extract or 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
- 10 Shallots peeled
- 2 Tomato cubed
- 2 green chilli slit (Optional)
- ½ cup Pumpkin cubed
- 1 Drumstick cut into 2 inch pieces
- Curry leaves Coriander leaves, for garnishing
- 1 teaspoon Chilli powder
- 2 teaspoon Sambar powder
- ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
- 1 teaspoon Jaggery
- 2 teaspoon Sea salt
- 1 cup & ¾ cup water divided
To temper
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- ⅛ teaspoon fenugreek seeds
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 sprig curry leaves
Instructions
- Place toor dal, moong dal in the inner pot. Add 2 cups water (480ml), ¼ teaspoon ghee.
- Pressure cook for 7 mins in High pressure. Optional: Let it stand for 10 mins. Quick release rest of the pressure.
- Mash the dal well with a ladle. Transfer the cooked dal to another bowl, set aside.
- Clean the inner pot to continue.
- Press sauté with 10 mins time (More heat). Add ghee, fenugreek seeds and mustard. Let it crackle.
- In goes a sprig of curry leaves. Tip in shallots, pumpkin, drumstick, green chilli (if adding) and tomatoes.
- Cook for 2 mins. Add all powders – asafoetida powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, sambar powder and give a quick stir.
- Pour in the tamarind extract and ¾ cup water. Add jaggery, salt. Mix well scraping all stuck ingredients if any, in the bottom.
- Cancel sauté, add cooked dal. Do not stir. Pressure cook for 4 mins in High pressure. Once done, Quick release the pressure.
- Press sauté for 2 mins in More heat. Add 1 more cup water and mix well.
- This is to adjust the water consistency.
- Boil until timer goes off. Garnish with few torn curry leaves and chopped coriander leaves.
Video
Notes
- Tamarind extract: Soak ½ tablespoon in ¼ cup hot water & extract with another ¼ cup water to make it total ½ cup
- All the ingredients available in Indian super markets if you are new to Indian cuisine.
- Other vegetables that can be used: Carrot, potato, brinjal, radish, capsicum.