Sambar Idly is my all-time favorite breakfast dish. Mostly kids love to have this sambar idly recipe, with a dollop of ghee/clarified butter.

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Sambar Idly with a dollop of ghee/clarified butter

Ingredients:

• Idly Batter – 2 cups
• Mini Idly moulds with Idly steamer
• Sambar – 3 cups
• Ghee / Clarified butter – 1 tbsp
• Coriander stalks – 2 nos

Idly in steamer

idly after steamed

Hotel Sambar

With sambar

garnished with coriander leaves

Sambar Idly

Preparation:

• Pour in water and boil let the water boil in the idly steamer.
• Grease the idly moulds, scoop in the batter with a spoon in the idly moulds.
• Place it in the idly steamer, cover and cook for 7 to 10 mins.
• Remove the lid, insert a toothpick in one of the idly and if the tooth pick comes out clean, then idly’s are cooked else cover and cook for few more mins.
• Remove the idly’s to a small plate and pour in 2 laddles of hot sambar along with a tsp of ghee/clarified butter over the idly.
• Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

Serve hot with sambar and chutney. I have accompanied it with hotel sambar and coriander chutney.