Turnip Sambar recipe with Homemade Sambar Powder
Turnip Sambar recipe, Easy Turnip recipe. Turnip Sambar recipe with Homemade Sambar Powder. Delicious and flavourful sambar recipe with Turnip. Turnip is a root vegetable tastes like a radish. Raw turnips are used in salads, pickles, and raita. Turnip has a lot of health benefits and it tastes awesome. There are many types of turnip recipes are available all over, but Indian Turnip Recipes are very less. like Turnip Sambar, Turnip Roast and Turnip Poriyal. Today am sharing the Turnip Sambar Recipe which is easy to make and less time-consuming.
Above is Turnip Image and I bought them from the Carrefour store here in Dubai. They are very fresh and juicy. As I said before having turnip in our diet is very good for weight loss also. Do try this out and we can top the turnip in our salads also.
More Similar tasty Sambar Varieties like,
- Mysore Sambar Recipe,
- Mullangi Sambar Recipe,
- How to make Simple Sambar Recipe
- Arachuvitta Kalyana sambar recipe
- Thrissur style varutharacha sambar
Turnip Sambar recipe Video,
Turnip Sambar Recipe with Ingredients:
- 1 cup toor dal
- 200g turnip, cubed
- gooseberry size tamarind soaked in ¼ cup water for 20-25 minutes and then squeezed with the juice extracted & strained.
- 2-3 tsp sambar powder
- ⅓ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp fenugreek/methi seeds
- 5-6 shallots, peeled
- 1-2 dry red chilies
- ¼ tsp asafoetida
- ½ tsp urad dal/ black gram (optional)
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 1 medium-size tomato, chopped
- 2 cups of water
- 2 tbsp oil
- salt as required
- wash the dal and pressure cook the dal with a pinch of turmeric in 2 cups water.
- Once dal cooked well, lightly mash the cooked dal and keep aside.
- Heat oil in another pan. add the mustard and let them splutter. Now add methi seeds, urad dal, dry red chili, and hing.
- Fry till the urad dal turns a light brown.
- Add in the shallots. Fry till the shallots become transparent and then add the tomatoes and curry leaves. Fry for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the turnip. stir and fry for a minute.
- stir and add the cooked dal.
- Add Tamarind water and salt. Stir and cook over medium flame till the turnip slices are cooked.
- Simmer till the whole mixture is blended well and the raw aroma of the tamarind disappears.
- Now add in the Sambar powder and stir well. If the sambar appears thick, then add some more water and simmer for a few minutes.
- garnish with coriander leaves. Switch of the stove. serve the turnip sambar with steamed rice or idli or dosa.
In this recipe, I used the homemade sambar powder if you don’t have sambar powder you can use 1 tsp chilly powder and 2 tsp coriander powder.
You can also add the dry roasted chilly, coriander seeds, Toor dal, and coconut and add the powder in the sambar, we call it as arachivitta sambar.
Turnip Sambar Recipe step by step:
- wash the dal and pressure cook the dal with a pinch of turmeric in 2 cups water.
Once dal cooked well, lightly mash the cooked dal and keep aside.
- Heat oil in another pan. add the mustard and let them splutter. Now add methi seeds, urad dal, dry red chili, and hing. Add in the shallots. Fry till the shallots become transparent and then add the tomatoes and curry leaves. Fry for 2-3 minutes. Add the turnip. stir and fry for a minute.
- Add Tamarind water, turmeric powder, and salt. Stir and cook over medium flame till the turnip slices are cooked.
Simmer till the whole mixture is blended well and the raw aroma of the tamarind disappears.
- Now add in the Sambar powder and stir well. If the sambar appears thick, then add some more water and simmer for a few minutes.
- garnish with coriander leaves. Switch of the stove. serve the turnip sambar with steamed rice or idli or dosa.
Do try this delicious and healthy Sambar and let me know your feedback.
ThankYou!
