Sambar is a South Indian Stew made of lentils, spices and optionally vegetables and is eaten with plain rice. It uses a spice mix called as Sambar powder. One thing I absolutely love to death is my mom’s Sambar. Even if she makes 5 courses, I will end up eating sambar for all the courses and skip everything else. That much is my craze for it. Like many others, I bought packets of home made Sambar and Rasam powder from home when I moved to the US – not because I cannot make it, but because my mom just like million others thought that I would be left helpless all of a sudden in an alien place ( I dint mean the country, meant the Kitchen ;-) ) not knowing what to do! hahaha.

Statistics say that there are about 1.5 million insects for every one human being. Likewise I would say, there are zillions of versions for Sambar Powder. I have seen so many varieties of the same which goes on to prove Sambar powder is one of the most versatile and loved recipe by so many Indians. So I thought lemme add my bit too among the many and as always its my mom’s recipe. You might have some complicated versions to ‘mm..not so complicated- doable’ version to simple ones. Mine is the utmost simplest and basic’est’ version possible. So if you run out of Sambar powder and dont have the patience or time to make elaborate ones – then this is your answer :)