This is not my recipe 🙂 its my husband’s. I have heard from his friends that he cooks really well. But after marriage he would never get into kitchen 😛 In what ever condition I am, he wouldn’t bother to help. If I complain about it he would say that he has to get that mood to cook, otherwise he wouldn’t 🙂 . Not sure how he got the mood to cook on Sunday. He said its been long time since I cooked , so I am going to prepare lunch today. I was shocked and said don’t joke, I will start preparing. He said I am serious and he didn’t let me in the kitchen. If I go in , he would send me out and said you are not supposed to watch what I am doing 😛
He had prepared sambar and egg scramble. Everything was perfect 😀 and loved his cooking 🙂 I know he will not do it often ,so I have to cherish this. Here is his recipe 🙂
Ingredients:
Radish/Mulangi : 1 large cut in to round pieces
Onion : 1 large
Tomato : 1 large
Green chili : 5
Garlic : 5 pods
Toor Dal/ Yellow Lentil : 1 cup
Ginger : 1 small piece
Tamarind pulp : 1 tablespoon
Turmeric Powder : generous pinch
Sambar Powder /Curry Powder: 1 tablespoon
Water : 5 cups
Salt : 1 teaspoon
To temper:
oil : 1 teaspoon
Mustard Seeds : 1 teaspoon
Urad dal : 1 teaspoon
Channa dal : 1 teaspoon
Red Chilies : 3 to 4
Curry Leaves: Few
Asafoetida/Hing : generous pinch
Cilantro : to garnish
Method:
In a pressure cooker, boil the lentil/toor dal with turmeric powder in 2 cups water and cook it for 6 whistles.
In a large pan add radish, onion, tomato, green chili, garlic, ginger with 3 cups of water and boil. Add turmeric powder to this. Boil for 10 mins. Then add sambar powder and cooked dal to this and cook for 15 mins. Next add the tamarind pulp and salt to this and heat for 5 more minutes.
In a separate pan, heat oil and add items in to temper. Add this to the sambar and stop from cooking. Add the cilantro leaves and garnish.
Serve with hot rice 🙂 Yum I enjoyed it 😀
Dimple@shivaaydelights said:
Malar…You lucky lady! Looks lovely!
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Malar said:
😀 Yes Dimple once in a while we got be lucky, Thanks 🙂
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radhikasethi said:
Have been getting a craving for a good sambhar rice since evening! Will surely try out this recipe tomorrow for dinner 🙂
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Malar said:
🙂 Do let me know how it turns out Radhika….
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radhikasethi said:
Sure will 🙂
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radhikasethi said:
I made this one yesterday and it was utterly delicious. There were no leftovers at all 😀
Thanks for sharing this recipe Malar!
xxx
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Malar said:
Wow!! that’s cool Radhika 😀
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radhikasethi said:
my hubby was trying to scrape off the last bit… lol
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Malar said:
hehe , Very happy to hear Radhika 🙂
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Traditionally Modern Food said:
Guess that’s the same thing with every husband Malar:) even my hubby friensds have told he has cooked before but I seldom seen him ( tasted his) cooking. I am going to show this post and encourage him:) mulangi sambar super
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Malar said:
haha, true Vidya most men does this 🙂 will convey him 🙂
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Chitra Jagadish said:
Same with me….heard from his friends but not even once he cooked …and my little one supports him saying “amma boys are not supposed to cook why you ask dad to do so ” – so it’s same all over. …looks yummy melange sambar
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Malar said:
🙂 haha i am hearing from everyone the same Chitra 🙂 Thanks Chitra will convey him 🙂
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Chitra Jagadish said:
Mulangi sambar yum yum….s
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Charanya said:
Love Sambar. Sanju and I try to cook together- I’m a health freak and he loves oil. So he is denied entry 🙂
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Malar said:
Aww that’s lovely to cook together, “Denied Entry” Lol 😀 . One thing I can trust with my hubby is that he is tooooo much a health freak than me, so I need not worry 😀
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Charanya said:
Good for you 🙂 🙂
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Malar said:
🙂
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Shruti said:
Thats something we always wish for!!! And you know, how hardly it happens 🙂 It’s a wonderful recipe.. I dont much like radish in anything else than salad or chutney but yes, would love it if my hubby makes sumthing 😉
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Malar said:
Ahh Yes Shruti, if hubby is ready make something that itself makes me excited 😉 Thanks 🙂
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srividhya said:
🙂 yum yum.. you should show all these comments and encourage him to cook more 🙂
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Malar said:
Thanks Srividhya 🙂 Encouragement doesn’t work with my hubby , he himself has to get that mood 😛
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tastefortongue said:
Yummy looking sambar there 🙂 Even my hubby is the same, he cooks really good but rarely shows the interest to cook.
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Malar said:
Thanks dear, I think many men are the same 🙂
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Shamim said:
Lucky girl 😉
Just bought some luvly rainbow radishes. Going to add them to dhal today. Thanks for the idea.
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Malar said:
Thanks Shamim 🙂
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