Talk:Sambar (dish)

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Contents 1 Facts 2 Move 3 Disambiguation 4 Recipe 5 info about Saaru 6 Cookbook templates 7 Etymology 8 toovar dal not lentils

[edit] Facts

(Referring to the Tamil portion). Is it accurate to say Kozhambu are a variant of sambar? As I saw it, sambar is a form of kozumbu made with tamarind and lentils.

[edit] Move

Moved Sambhar to Sambar. Ambarish Talk 19:42, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

Disambiguated the deer from the dish. Ambarish Talk 07:55, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Recipe

Recipe for Sambar removed from this page and moved to Wikibooks. Kevyn 07:07, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] info about Saaru

I am moving this here, since the info is false here but can be moved to an article about saru/rasam with a bit of tweaking. Sambar without significant vegetable content is called Saru in Karnataka. Saru without lentils is called hunise saru (tamarind saru), which becomes menasina saru (pepper saru) if pepper is added.' --Pamri • Talk 09:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Pamri, I had a doubt about this. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 13:54, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cookbook templates

I added both the templates {{copy to Wikibooks Cookbook}} and {{Cookbook}}, despite the fact that they are generally mutually exclusive. I did this because the Cookbook already has a page on Sambar, but it doesn't have these recipes. If anybody has any better ideas, or wants to put it on the Cookbook and be done with it, go ahead. -- kenb215 06:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

It's been re-imported, as both recipes on this page are different from the one we had previously. In the future, please just add new recipes directly to the Cookbook, so we don't have to keep re-importing this. --SB_Johnny|^talk|_books 12:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

What is the etymology of "sambar" and from which root language does the word come? Does anyone have a dictionary in one of the South Indian languages that gives this information? Badagnani 20:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] toovar dal not lentils

Although lentils can refer to a wide range of pulses it generally specifically refers to masoor dal which is not commonly used to make sambar. To try and reduce confusion I have amended the article thus. --Vince 17:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)