Sambar powder | Homemade Sambar masala
 
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A unique blend of spices Sambar powder | Homemade Sambar masala is very easy to make at home, is hygienic and turns out to be very flavourful. This is an essential ingredient to make south indian cuisine, specially sambar.
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Recipe type: Condiments
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients
  • Dry Kashmiri Red chilli/Byadgi chilli – 1 cup
  • Coriander seeds – 1 cup
  • Chana Dal/split yellow lentils– ¼ cup
  • Urad Dal/split white lentils– ¼ cup
  • Toor dal/split pigeon pea lentils- ½ cup
  • Jeera/cumin – 2 tsp
  • Methi seeds/ Fenugreek Seeds– 2 tsp
  • Whole black pepper corns/kali mirch – 2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder- 2 tsp
  • Hing/Asafoetida – 1 tbsp
  • Rock salt- ½ tbsp
  • Fresh curry leaves – handful
Instructions
  1. Wash curry leaves well and pat dry with a kitchen towel.
  2. In a frying pan dry roast all the ingredients including curry leaves one after the other separately and keep aside.
  3. Saute everything until spices turns aromatic.
  4. Next sauté turmeric and hing separately only for almost 10 seconds.
  5. After frying of ingredients, let it cool for 15-20 minutes.
  6. Take a mixer/grinder, add all the ingredients except dry red chillies and grind it to fine powder. Spread this on a plate to cool.
  7. After that grind dry red chillies to make a fine powder. Mix this with the other powders which was left to cool.
  8. After cooling the powders, add them again in the blender to blend just for a minute. Once it’s cooled sieve it ans store in an air tight container .
Recipe by at https://yummytalesoftummy.com/sambar-powder-homemade-sambar-masala/