Sambar (dish) powder. In Andhra Pradesh, it is called as "Pappu chaaru". Apart from dal and tamarind, vegetables used in preparing is few. Vegetables are onions, dosakaaya, bitter gourd and tomatoes. Sambar without lentils (but with vegetables, or dried or fresh fish) is called kuzhambu in Tamil Nadu. Sambar is usually served with steamed rice as one of the main courses of both formal and everyday south Indian cuisine. A two-course meal of sambar mixed with rice and eaten with some sort of vegetable side dish, followed by yoghurt mixed with rice, is a prime southern Indian staple. "Vada" sambar and "idli"
Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish by Indian food would make a compelling book, but that Shrabani Basu's was not that, being "shoddily written and mind-bogglingly banal", offering "no anthropological insights, few historical perspectives, no literary conspectus, little sociological research". Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish Curry in the Crown: The Story of Britain's Favourite Dish is a 1999 book written by Shrabani Basu. The book discusses in detail the growth of the Indian food business in Britain and how it became a million dollar business there. A 1997 Gallup poll of British tastes in food proved that curry, basically an Indian