Easy Hotel Idli Sambar Recipe – How To Make Tiffin Sambar

Usually I make Tamil nadu Hotel style idli sambar adding freshly roasted & ground spices. To make my job easier, I started making Idli sambar powder in bulk and use it to my need. Few months back, I watched Venkatesh Bhat’s hotel style idli sambar recipe in Samayal Samayal cookery show. It is a simplified & quick version of restaurant style idli sambar without any grinding job. As I had already tried Kerala ulli sambar recipe (Vengaya sambar), I found this recipe very close to it. So I tried it confidently. As expected, it came out really well. I started making it regularly with my own modifications. This has become Raksha’s favorite idli sambar. It tastes good for all tiffin recipes like Idli, dosa, vada, Pongal and rice upma as well. For variations and to make it more healthy for your kids, you can add vegetables like potato, carrot & use few pieces of pumpkin instead of jaggery to give a natural sweetness in sambar. If you like the taste of this sambar, you can use this sambar recipe for making mini idli sambar and sambar vadai. Try this easy version of idli sambar and prepare a quick side dish for idli, dosa during busy morning hours. Ok, lets see how to make hotel style idli sambar in an easy way !
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Hotel Style Idli sambar Recipe

Hotel style idli sambar recipe - Quick version

Cuisine: South Indian

Category: Side dish For Idli, dosa

Serves: Serves 3

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Toor Dal - 1/4 cup Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Cooking oil - few drops Water - 2 cups Big onion - 1 no (cubed) Ripe tomato - 2 nos (Small sized, Do not chop it, use whole tomato) Asafetida/Hing - a big pinch Curry leaves - few Red chilli powder – 1/4 tsp Dhania powder – 1/2 tsp Grated jaggery - 1/2 tsp Besan flour – 1 tsp To temper Cooking oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Urad dal - 1/2 tsp Sambar powder - 1 tbsp Ghee & coriander leaves - to garnish ** Skip onion to make no onion, no garlic idli sambar ** Use 3 pumpkin cubes along with dal to get natural sweetness in sambar. **Add mixed vegetables like carrot & potato with dal to make it more healthy.Use one tomato if its bigger in size or sour in taste .

         

METHOD

Wash and take the toor dal in a pressure cooker base. Add 2 cups of water and let it soak for few minutes till you chop onions. Chop the onion and add to the cooker.Add one whole tomato ( Do not chop the tomato because dal may not cook mushy), turmeric powder, curry leaves, hing and few drops of cooking oil. Add enough water and cook the dal in low flame for 2 whistles. Remove the lid after the steam is released. Mash the dal + tomato very well. Make sure dal is well cooked and mashed well. Add red chilli powder, dhania powder, jaggery and required salt. Dilute besan flour in 1/4 cup of water and add to the cooked dal ( ** Adding besan flour helps to get a creamy texture to this sambar and blends well with dal). Mix well. In a kadai, heat oil. Splutter mustard seeds, urad dal & sambar powder. Saute for few seconds without burning sambar powder. Do not change its color. Add the mashed dal to the kadai. Boil the sambar for  few minutes by adding chopped coriander leaves and ghee. Switch off the flame ,cover the sambar with a lid and give a standing time of one hour before serving. Enjoy with hot idli, dosa & pongal. Drizzle a tsp of sesame oil or ghee if you like !

Try this easy version of hotel idli sambar at home and enjoy with piping hot idlis !

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