Quick sambar recipe | How to make onion sambar for idli or dosa
By Latha on April 18th, 2022
Quick onion sambar recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This sambar can be prepared in very less time without any vegetables. This quick sambar is prepared using onion, tomato, few spice powders and a tempering. This is a tasty and easy sambar for rice or breakfast (tiffin).
Other than onion and tomato, I have not used any vegetables in this sambar. I have not cooked toor dal in this recipe. Instead I have used roasted gram or hurigadale. Also I have added jaggery in this recipe. You can adjust salt, tamarind and jaggery also as per your taste.
If you are looking for more sambar recipes then do check my menaskai, basale soppu sambar, snakegourd kootu, amaranthus or harive soppina huli, dill leaves rasam, bendekayi kayirasa, massoppu, yellow cucumber sambar, tomato rasam, recipes from doddapatre and okra sambar recipes.
I have made a video on this sambar recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 tbsp roasted gram or hurigadale
- 1 large onion
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp dhaniya or coriader powder
- 1/4 tsp garam masala powder
- Big pinch turmeric powder
- Salt as per your taste
- 1 tsp jaggery (optional but recommended)
- One marble sized tamarind
- Some coriander leaves
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 red chili
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Big pinch of asafoetia
- 5 - 6 curry leaves
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
Instruction for making quick onion sambar:
- Grind tomato and roasted gram into a fine paste by adding required water.
- In a kadai or deep frying pan, prepare tempering using oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chilli and curry leaves.
- Wait until mustard and cumin seeds splutter. Add in asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Next add in thinly sliced onion and fry until soft.
- Followed by add in red chilli powder, dhaniya powder, garam masala powder and turmeric powder. Fry everything together for a while.
- Add in ground tomato and roasted gram paste.
- Also add in required water.
- Add in salt as per your taste.
- Add in jaggery as per your taste.
- Add in tamarind as per your taste.
- Boil it for 5 minutes. Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and switch off the stove.
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