Additionally, you can add store-bought sambar powder in the recipe but freshly prepared sambar paste gives more richness and tasty flavor in the sambar recipe. Cut carrots in to small pieces. ★ Cuts onions in to slightly large pieces. Sambar is served with idli, dosa or medu vada, uttapam, and rice. Finely chop tomatoes. ★ Mash boiled pigeon peas. You can served slightly thin Sambar with idli, dosa, medu vada, and uttapam. Add mustard seeds, white lentil, curry leaves, dry red chilli and fry them. Also you can served thick Sambar with steamed rice. Idli Sambar Recipe In English ★ Wash pigeon peas, put them in cooker pour 2 cups of water and keep it on stove for boiling. How to Serve Sambar. Ingredients for Idli Sambar recipe in English Hindi Marathi Tamil Telugu All Indian languages * Arhar Dal – 1 cup (Pigeon peas) * Carrot – 2 (Small) * Onion – 2 * Dry red chilli – 2 * Tomato – 2 * Turmeric – 1/4 Tsp * Tamarind paste – 2 Tsp * Sambar Powder – 1 Tsp * Curry leaves – 10 * Mustard seeds – 1/4 Tsp ★ Heat oil in a pan.