Drumstick Flowers Sambar (Nugge Hu)

Drumstick Flowers Sambar (Nugge Hu)

Drumstick tree itself is a nutritional powerhouse. Drumstick or Moringa flowers are said to aid weight loss because they reduce water retention and bloating due to the powerful diuretic in them. These also protect against tissue damage.

You need

250 gm Mangalore cucumber (peeled and cut into cubes)

2 handful or more drumstick flowers/buds

1 cup tur dal

1  tbsp bafat powder

1 big tomato chopped fine/pureed

1 sprig curry leaves chopped fine

Salt to taste

1 tbsp oil

1 pinch hing or crushed five flakes of garlic

·     Pluck the flowers and buds off stems, wash, drain and keep aside.

·     Wash the tur dal and cook it in cooker for 5 minutes after the whistle, mash it and keep it ready.

·     Heat a nonstick or thick bottomed pan, add oil.

·     When oil is hot add curry leaves, fry for a minute.

·      Add onions and fry two minutes, add tomato, make the heat high for 2-3 minutes.

·     add drained flowers, cut cucumber pieces, mix well and close the lid and cook till both are cooked.

·     When the flowers and cucumber pieces are almost cooked, Add salt and bafat powder, cooked dal and mix well.

·     Add a cup or more water to make it to corry consistency, check the taste. Add salt and bafat powder as per your taste.

·     Lower the heat, close the lid and cook for 4-5 minutes.

·     Put off the stove, and serve with rice.

Tips

If you want the sambar to be more tangy add a tsp of tamarind extract.

To quicken the cooking, you can season and boil the cucumber and flowers in a small cooker till one whistle. Then continue with the above steps.

Instead of bafat powder, any sambar powder can be added.

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