Mini Idli Sambar Recipe / Sambar Idli

Mini idli sambar is easy and delicious breakast or dinner recipe.. It is a super combo, when its served hot.. Mini sambar idli is my kids favourite recipe that I wants to buy mini ldli maker and give it a try this recipe long time.... This perfect sambar, pour over the idli well suitable for this recipe.. That I browse more website to make this recipe... because I wants it's to be a perfect one....

The main thing you have to noted that the sambar or the idlies should be hot for perfect absorbing. Just do this mixing 5 mins before you serve. I adopted this recipe from Raks but make a little changes to my taste.. This sambar is simple just adding sambar powder but one important notes the sambar be made more with tomatoes and less in tamarind. Ghee is perfect for tempering this sambar and topping too. 

So I hope that you must try this recipe and let me know how it's turns out from you..

Preparation time :15 mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Serve - 4

Recipe Source - Raks Kitchen

Recipe Category - Breakfast recipe..

INGREDIENTS :

FOR MAKING DAL :

Toor dal - 1/2 cup

Turmaric powder 1/4 tspn

Asafoetida - 1/4 spn 

Red chilli - 2 nos

FOR SAMBAR :

Shallots / Small onions - 15 nos

Tamarind extract - 2 tbspn

Tomato - 2 (chopped)

Sambar powder - 2 tbspn

Fresh grated coconut - 4 tspn

Coriander leaves - (chopped)as needed

TO TEMPER :

Coconut oil - 3 tspn

Mustard - 1tspn

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn

Urad dal - 1/2 tspn

Red chilli - 2 nos (broken)

Curry leaves - as needed

TO ASSAMBLE :

Mini idli - as needed

Ghee - as needed

METHOD :

• Prepare your mini idli and keepaside..
• In a pressure cooker add dal, turmaric, chilli, asafoetida, and some water, Close the lid and whistled it for 4..
• When it cooked mash the dal well once done. keep aside.
• Heat a kadai, add peeled small onions, tomatoes, fry it well 
• Add tamarind juice, sambar powder and required salt bring to boil..
• At this stage add cooked dal to that and mix well
• Now boiled it for 5 mins. Then add coconut, chopped coriander leaves.. Give it a mix..
• Heat a kadai, temper the items given under ' to temper ' table in order and fry for a minute and pour in the sambar 
• Now off the stove you may also top with some ghee (optional). The sambar is ready for making sambar idly.
• Then arrange mini idlli in a plate and pour the sambar over it..
• Topped it with some ghee (optional) to make the recipe perfect. 
• The mini idli sambar is ready to serve.
• Click mini idli to view.

PICTORIAL :

Take ingredients for making dal

Add dal, chilli, turmaric, asafoetida

Add water to that

whistled it for 4

Mash the cooked dal once

Take your ingredients

In a kadai add oil

Add onions

Add in tomatoes

Toss well

Then add tamarind

Now add sambar powder to that

Some salt 

Mix it well

Pour the cooked dal to it

Let them to boil

Add coconut

Some pinch of coriander

In another kadai add oil, mustard, urad dal

Cumin seeds

Broken red chilli

Some curry leaves

Fried it

When the sambar is ready

Add tempered items to that

Now give a mix and off the stove..

Sambar is done

It's time to make idli sambar

Take mini idli and sambar 

Arrange the mini idli

Now pour sambar, sprinkle some coriander leaves

Do not soak for long time and 
keep as it will became soggy and mushy

Serve hot

Enjoy...