How to make Arachu Vitta Sambar
Prep Time : 15 mins
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Sambar-Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian-Tamil Brahmin
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Tur dal – 1/3 measuring cup or 4 ½ tbsp
Tamarind – small gooseberry sized ball
Onion – 1 (optional)
Radish (any variety)- 2-3
Salt needed
Fry and grind
Coriander seeds (malli vithai) – 1 tbsp flat
Bengal gram dal (channa dal/kadalai paruppu) – 1 ½ tsp
Red chillies – 3-4
Grated coconut -2 tbsp
Raw rice -1/4 tsp
For the seasoning
Oil – 2 tsp
Mustard seeds– ¼ tsp
Fenugreek seeds (vendhayam) – ¼ tsp
Asafoetida/hing – a pinch
Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
For garnishing
Coriander Leaves -2 tbsp finely chopped
Preparations
Soak tamarind in hot water for 15 minutes and extract its juice. Discard the pulp.
Heat a tsp of oil and fry coriander seeds, bengal gram dal, red chillies and raw rice. Fry on medium heat until dal turns golden brown. Add grated coconut in the end. After adding coconut, switch off the flame. Saute the coconut in the heat of the pan itself. Leave it to cool and then grind it to a smooth paste. This is the arachu vitta sambar masala.
Wash radish, peel the skin and cut it into round shapes. Cook radish also along with tur dal keeping it in a small vessel along with dal as shown in the picture above.
Method
Heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan or kadai, add mustard, when it splutters, add fenugreek, hing and curry leaves.
Then add 1 1/2 cups (approximately) of tamarind extract, turmeric powder, salt and boil until the raw flavor of the tamarind goes.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rice or idli or dosa or ven pongal.
Greens like drumstick leaves, ponnaganni leaves, vendhaya keerai can also be used to prepare sambar. Check out vendhaya keerai sambar.
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View Comments (54)
Padu Sambar is comfortable food for us. Urs look so colorful and delicious dear.
Just love these sort of sambhar,yummy!
Nice meal to hog for :) Good presentation.
Delicious sambar with radish...never added this before but a nice idea....
I make it the same way... yummy!!!!
Nothing can beat this arachu vitta sambar. Very nice recipe and beautiful pictures.
wow my fav one.but i add a little bit of sambhar powder to it.That platter looks nice.
Delicious Sambar!!!!!!
But my mom does it in a different way.
will try out this
Nice space here !
Loved how to cook rice in pressure cooker :D , hope u were there 3 years back when I was alone in US and really had to ask these questions to my mom :(
Thank you buddies for the wonderful comments.