Homemade Sambhar Powder

Homemade Sambar Powder

Are you looking for a great accompaniment to Idli, Dosa, Idiyappam and other South Indian dishes? Then you’re in the right place. So sit back and unleash your childhood memories with our specially blended homemade sambar powder with no added colour and preservatives.

More than food, Sambhar is a lifestyle. So let’s look out how it can be done:

• Add 1 1/2 cups of toor dal to 2 cups of water and pressure cook for 10 minutes. Add a pinch of turmeric—Cook for 5 minutes.
• In the meantime, soak a small half lemon tamarind in water in a small bowl.
• Prep and chop vegetables such as carrots, eggplants, drumsticks, onions, and tomatoes.
• Pour the tamarind water into a large kadai.
• Then add 1 tsp of jaggery/sugar, along with green chilli, salt, turmeric powder, and our sambar powder.
• Heat urad dal, mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves, and red chillies to make the tempering.
• Temper the freshly prepared sambar with the tempering.

The most delicious and nutritious sambar is now ready to serve!

Ingredients of Sambar Powder:

Dry red chilli, Kashmiri chilli, Coriander seeds, Channa dhal, Toor dhal, Raw rice, Cumin seeds, Black pepper, Fenugreek, Asafoetida, Turmeric, Curry leaves. 

Every sambar lover out there. Here is your homemade sambhar powder, packed with health benefits!

Sambhar is so festive due to this fantastic mix. There are many versions of Sambhar in the South, but one staple is a good spice mix for Sambhar. Whenever you buy Sambhar Masala, make sure to store it in airtight containers since it can lose its flavour quite quickly, and we don’t want that, do we? With Sambhar Masala by Ammama’s, you get an airtight package that makes storing easier.