Tirunelveli Idli Sambar Recipe - Nellai Style Tiffin Sambar For Idli

I learnt this Tirunelveli style idli sambar from my mom. Most of us make idli sambar with toor dal. But my mom makes sambar by combining moong dal and toor dal and with freshly roasted and ground Nellai style idli sambar powder ( my mom calls this as mel podi in Tamil). Last week I prepared this as a side dish for idli. My husband liked it so much. Many thanks to my mom. .Lets see how to make Tirunelveli style Idli sambar with toor dal and moong dal.

I have also shared my mom's moong dal sambar for idli - easy, no grind version , check it :)

If you are looking for Tirunelveli sambar for rice, do check this link .

 

Idli Sambar recipe

How to make idli sambar using toor dal, moong dal adding vegetables in Tirunelveli style

Cuisine: South Indian

Category: Sambar

Serves: Serves 4

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

To Pressure cook - 1 cup =250ml Ingredients: Moong dal – 1/8 cup  Toor dal – 1/8 cup Tamarind – Small gooseberry size Tomato – 1 no Carrot – 1-2 nos (use 2 nos if very small) Potato – 1-2 nos(-do-) Besan flour/ Kadalai maavu – 1 tsp Salt & Water – As required To Roast and Grind: Cooking Oil – 1/2 tsp Dry coriander seeds/dhania – 1.5 tsp Chana dal – 2 tsp Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp Red chillies – 3 nos To temper Cooking Oil – 2 tsp Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp Urad dal –1/2 tsp Curry leaf – 1 sprig Asafetida/Hing – a pinch Red chilly – 1 no Green chilly – 1 to 3 nos(depends on your taste) Small / Pearl onions – 10 nos(Peeled) Coriander leaves – To garnish

METHOD

To make Tirunelveli style idli sambar powder : Roast all the items given under “To roast and grind” adding 1/2 tsp of oil till nice aroma arises. Make a smooth powder by grinding it. Use this powder to make sambar. Just add 2 tsp of this powder at the end. This gives the flavor. Keep this powder ready before doing this sambar. You can store this powder and use later.  Cube cut the vegetables .Chop the tomato into pieces.Soak the tamarind in water. Pressure cook moong and toor dal  by adding water,turmeric powder and a drop of oil. In a small box, keep the chopped vegetables and cook with dal. Cook for 1-2 whistles depending on your cooker. [Normally what I do is , I keep the dal in the cooker base and keep the veggies in a closed tiffin box that suits my cooker so that the veggies will be separate and will not be mashed with the dal .I mash the dal alone with a ladle. I followed the same for this sambar too!! ] If you don’t want to follow this,cook the veggies and dal separately. Extract the juice from soaked tamarind. Keep aside. Now heat a kadai with 1 tbsp of oil and add mustard seeds. Let it pop. Then add urad dal, pinched red chilly and curry leaves. Add onion, green chillies, tomato pieces and saute until tomato turns mushy. Now add the tamarind juice, cooked dal and boiled veggies along with onions, tomato & green chillies. Add a pinch of hing. Add the required salt and water. Let it boil for sometime. Now add 2 tsp of freshly ground powder and boil for 2 mins. Lastly add the diluted besan flour and boil for few minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with idly by adding sesame/gingely oil. Enjoy !

This sambar is a combination of moong and toor dal.So it tastes different and yummy. Do try it !

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