Last night, Em got her first taste of sambar (of sorts). We were originally going to bake black cod in a garlic caper sauce, but by the time we got to Madison Market their seafood section was closed! *grr* So, we settled for comfort food (MY comfort food!): potato curry, sambar and rice. I had to improvise on the sambar since MM does not seem to carry tuvar dal, so we had to make do with channa dal and masoor dal instead. It wasn't bad at all, just took much longer to cook. Instead of the traditional vengaya sambar, we settled for onion+carrots instead. I could totally taste the shortcuts in our cooking (tamcon instead of the real soaked tamarind water and the lack of fresh ground sambar podi) but it turned out quite yummy. Can't wait to make my original sambar soon :)
We diced up some potatoes and sauteed them with a light dressing of olive oil, mustard, cumin, turmeric, cayenne and sea salt. The curry was happy, very happy.
*burp*
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