Kollu / Horse Gram Sambar

Kollu / Horse Gram Sambar

Today I'm going to give you a very different dish(!), Sambar! Which is made of Kollu / Horse Gram! As we all know about the beneficial effects of Kollu, let's go to the recipe directly! 

Ingredients:

Kollu - 1 cup
Green gram - 1/2 cup
Any vegetable of your wish (cut into big squares) - 1 cup
Sambar powder - 1 tbsp
Tamarind - 1 small Amla size
Oil - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - As required

For seasoning

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida powder - 1 pinch
Curry leaves - 1 strand
Coriander leaves - 2 strands

Method

Soak Kollu and Green Gram overnight.

Pressure cook the soaked kollu and green gram upto four whistles so that it becomes so soft!

Soak tamarind for half-an-hour and take the extract.

In a deep thick bottomed pan, preferably a pressure cooker, heat oil. Put mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds! When it splutters add asafoetida powder, curry leaves and add cut vegetables. (I used onion and tomato.) Mix well.

Add sambar powder and salt to it and mix well. Roast it for few minutes so that the raw smell of the sambar powder goes. Now add salt.

Add tamarind extract and mix well. Add required water. Close the pan keeping a spoon in it. Simmer the stove and allow the veggies to boil. It will take about 10 to 15 minutes.

Check whether the veggies had boiled to soft, and the raw smell of tamarind extract and sambar powder goes! If not, allow it to boil for few more minutes.

Mash the softly cooked kollu and green gram. Add the mashed kollu and green gram to the boiled veggie mixture and mix well. Add required water and mix well. 

Allow it to boil for 5 to 10 minutes.

Switch off the stove and garnish with curry leaves and coriander leaves.

Serve hot.

It goes well with hot rice with ghee.

It is a nice side dish for Idli, Dosa and Pongal!

Will be back with yet another healthy dish! Till then have healthy days! Bye!