Tuesday, February 14, 2012

CARROT AND BEANS CURRY( SAMBAAR )

Carrot and Beans Huli is a curry.    You can have  Chapati, Poori , Rice and Akki Rotti  with this curry.
Things Needed :
Carrot : 2 to 3
Beans : 1/2 cup
Toor Daal : 2 Table spoons
Coconut : 1/2 cup ( 3 to 4 Table spoons - Fresh and grated ).
Daniya ( Coriander ) seeds : 2 to 3 Tea spoons
Jeera ( Cumin Seeds) : 1/2 Tea spoon.
Red Chillies : 4to 6
Tamarind : 2 Table spoons pulp
Asafoetida :  a pinch
Mustard seeds :1/2 tea spoon
Urd Daal : 1/2 tea spoon
Curry leaves : 5 to 6
Oil : 1 Tea spoon
Salt : to taste.


Method:  Boil Toor Daal  and cut vegetables in a pressure cooker for 5 minutes.  ( Wash and cut vegetables according to your wish ).   Keep it aside.
Grind coconut , coriander seeds, cumin seeds, tamarind pulp and red chillies in to paste and keep it aside.
Now take a pan keep on the fire . Put oil and heat.  Add  mustard seeds and urd daal. Let mustard spurt. Add curry leaves and add boiled toor daal and vegetable mixture. Add salt and boil for 2 minutes . Now add ground coconut mixture and mix well. Soak Ingh in one tea spoon of water and mix well . Add this ingh  to the boiling  Sambaar. . Cook for 5 minutes and pour it to the serving bowl.
Serve hot Sambaar with Rice chapati or dosas....
Note :  Do not  over cook the vegetables. You can cook vegetables separately.  Soak tamarind in hot water  for 2 minutes and squeeze out the pulp . You can also add potatoes to this sambaar.  You can use  Brinjaal instead of carrots .  You can use pumpkins , Mangalore cucumber ,  Beetroot. also... ( Use any one of the vegetable to get better taste). Do not add onions to this curry. Mixing of onions will give different taste.
2 to 3 Servings.

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