Hotel Style Sambar Vadai
- 24
- March
- 2010
Sambhar Vada:(Hotel Style)
There were days, when I simply relied on hotel food. While studying, thats the best thing to do to myself…eat a decent breakfast and keep a big distance from hostel mess:) I am not the person who wants perfection in every bite…but during those hectic days, big breakfast was pretty mandatory.
So, whenever we girls step out for morning tiffin, I order myself sambar vada…and my friends used to pull my legs, saying’ its leftover vadas Malar and call me ‘Sambhar Maniac’. Those were days…
Ingredients:
For Vadai:
Urad dal 1 cup
Rice 1-2 spoons
Salt
Ginger 2″ peeled & chopped
Whole peppercorns 1 spoon
Cumin 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1 pinch
Coconut 4″ piece finely chopped
Curry leaves few
Sago 1 spoon – powdered(to give some crunch on the crust)
Rice flour – gives reddish tint
Oil for deep frying.
Ingredients:
For Sambar:
Thoor dal 1 cup
Small Onions 1 cup/Red onions sliced
Country Tomatoes 2-3 diced
Garlic 5 cloves crushed
White pumpkin diced 1/2 cup
Drumstick 1 chopped to the same size of pumpkin
Jaggery 2 spoons
Curry leaves few
Salt
Turmeric 1/4 spoon
Chili powder 1 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Mustard 1/2 spoon
Tamarind paste 1/4 spoon
Coriander leaves finely chopped 1/2 cup
Ghee 1/2 cup
To Be Roasted Each Separately And Powdered Together:
Coriander seeds 2-4 spoons
Chana dal 2-4 spoons
Curry leaves few
Fenugreek seeds 1 spoon
Dry red chilies 3-5
Asafoetida 1 spoon.
To Garnish:
Finely chopped onions
Finely chopped chilies
Finely chopped cilantro leaves
Lemon juice and pinch of salt.
Method:
For Sambar:
In a pressure cooker, heat few spoons of ghee. Add 2-3 cups of water to this. Pressure cook the lentils till soft and tender.
In a separate non-stick cook- ware, heat ghee. Add mustard, asafoetida and curry leaves to this. Let them splutter.
Now add onions and garlic to this and fry for a while. Add tomatoes and fry till they loose their water content and oil shows up on sides.
Add vegetables, turmeric powder, salt, chili powder, jaggery and 1 spoon of freshly prepared sambar powder to this.
Now add the cooked lentils. Cover and cook over medium flame.
Once the vegetables are done, add tamarind paste, remaining sambar powder and freshly chopped coriander leaves.
Run a few spoons of ghee, before serving.
Mehtod:
For Vadai:
Soak urad dal and rice in water for nearly 1-2 hours.
Then drain off its excess water. Wet grind them to thick butter like paste.
Now mix all the above mentioned items to it(except oil)
Heat up the oil in deep frying pan. Wet your palm and make vadas as given in the pictures.
Fry till golden to reddish brown. Let the outer vada turn nice and crispy.
For Sambar Vadai:
Dip the warm vadai in luke warm water for few seconds and leave it in serving bowl. Then pour some generous amount of sambar on top. Garnish with cilantro leaves.
Serve at room temperature.
Wow what a splendid looking sambar vadas,feel like grabbing all of them not just one malar.Sambar vada n idly yumm yumm,gorgeous pics.
Making me hungry…………Tempting
Slurppp, this is not fair at all, its time to go bed for me and u r with sambar vadai, how can i go to sleep now am damn sure am gonna dream about those tempting vadais for the sure, feel like having some rite now..
The sambhar and vadai looks so lovely and delicious.I am sure your homemade ones taste better than any hotel ones.I love the step by step instructions.
Vadas have turned out so crisp and perfect Malar…I am awfully tempted all those clicks, especially the ones with sambar
Superb dear!!!! we love this so much!!! looks mouthwatering..i wanna gobble up the entire vadai now…
Malar, Looks super yummy, can you please send one order my way
WOW looks mouthwatering. Love this combo and nice step by step pics.
Reading this and looking at the pictures is making me so hungry…
Malar,
Can i catch a flight to come there, still sambar vada is available. it looks yummy.
Oh My..u made me hungry.i can eat the whole plate..tooo yummmmmmmm
Perfect vada!! Beautiful clicks..
It’s really mouth watering. The photos are well illustrated.
Yummmmm…
Oh man! You know it’s not a good idea to see these kinds of posts before you go to bed. Feeling soooo hungry now. sambar vadai looks mouth watering.
I love vada sambhar a lot but limit the intake due to the fried vadais
Your vadais look fantastic, so crispy and i love the onions on top for garnishing!
Oh no, I need one now. Love the tasty and crispy sambar vadai !!
Lovely and yummy one, looks delicious and tempting.
I am normally a little vary about hotel food but this one sure looks good!
this is a gud idea…neaver had this…
OMG…i cant wait any more dear..So crispy and mouthwatering…
Sambar vadai looks very tempting dear
Vadai looks perfect and crispy!!!
oh my god..this is my all time fav…u r making me hungry
Lovely captures… Makes me very tempting….. It has been a long long time since I savored idlis or vadas with sambhar…… I dont get a chance…nor I prepare them at home….. I always loved awesome sambhar served at a local Mangalorean joint…But that place has closed down…after which I never thought of eating it elsewhere…… Because their sambhar was very DIVINE!!!!! You prep only makes me reminisce that flavor & feel sad & wanting to savor them……
Ash…
(http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)
Malar!!! Sambar vadai looks perfect and delicious.Me too like sambar n thayir vadai in hotels, sambar looks perfect with grinded ingredients.thanks for sharing dear,,,looks mouthwatering for me.take care n keep on smiling.
that truly looks tempting…
lovely wada sambar!.. well presented.. loved the mishti doi too..
The vada looks jsut perfect malar…
wow! that looks great!
Very tempting sambar vadas….looks too good..
Oh Malar, What a post..I love this hotel style Vada Sambhar..Nothing wrong with being called a ‘Sambhar Maniac’..as I used to be the same. I loved my vadas soaked in the goodness of the sambhar..I rem when I was working in Mumbai we had a restaurant very close to work where we went there for breakfast/lunch etc..there the waiter wd be annoyed at times to see me as I always asked for xtra sambhar for my vadas all the time..that one time he asked me..Are you a south Indian..why do you like sambhar so much… (guess what years later got married to a South Indian…LOl
Your prep is perfect..especially the pictorial instructiosn abt making Vadas..I still struggle with it.. A Job well done..
just tell me when i can shift my home next to urs:) looks great
Oh wow malar ur making me hungry and stomach is grumbling seeing the sambar vadai. The shape of the vadai has comeout so good. Looks exactly like hotel sambar vadai as u mentioned. Yummy !!!
wow, these look so pro..perfetc title..ek dum hotel ishtyle.. LOL..clicks making me crave for vadais..
wow this is totally mouthwatering
Excellent recipe and looks like it is perfectly done. Superb
Love those vadas Malar, can’t wait to try them. I too make vadas but these look different.
Wow that looks so good!
looks yummy
Wow,u making me hungry now! its long time since I made vadai! Sure this weekend going to make ,u tempted for that
that picture of the row of vadais, really makes my mouth water Malar.
i am so hungry now…i can’t say more..
Wow…I am drooling…
Malar dear..this is such a treat..I use to enjoy this in chennai hotels..and off course duplicate it at home sometimes..u inspire me to do it again
These looks so divine..the vadas have come so perfect and crisp… and very nice pictures also Malar..
Sambar vada makes me hungry,please pass one plate for me