Nookal Sambar Recipe

Ingredients

1. Garlic 5 pieces
2. Oil
3. Hing powder ½ spoon
4. Mustard 1 spoon
5. Turmeric powder 1 spoon
6. Salt
7. Kulambu Milagai Powder (Wondering how to make – Refer our Kulambu Milagai Powder Recipe)
8. Tomato 1
9. Onion 1
10. Green Chili 
11. Curry leaves
12. Nookal (Kohl Rabi) – 3
13. Red Gram (Tuavaram paruppu) 1 bowl
14. Tamarind Juice 1 bowl
15. Water
16. Small onion
17. Fenugreek seed 1 spoon

Procedure

1. Add 1 bowl of rinsed Red Gram (Tuavaram paruppu) in a cooker, 5 pieces of garlic, pour some water, 1 spoon of oil, Turmeric Powder ½ spoon and close the lid.
2. Open the lid after 3 whistle and mix it well.
3. Transfer half of it to a different container and place the remaining in the cooker on the boiler.
4. Add 2 spoon of oil in a tawa and add handful of small onion, 2 green chili, chopped Nookal (Kohl Rabi) and tomato & pour it in the cooker.
5. Add salt, 1 and half spoon of Kulambu Milagai Powder, ½ spoon of hing powder, pour some water and close the lid.
6. Open the lid after 5 minutes, add bowl of tamarind juice, pour the remaining saved in the separate container.
7. Add 2 spoon of oil in a tawa, 1 spoon of mustard, ½ Fenugreek seed, curry leaves and pour it to the sambar.
8. Nookal Sambar Ready