Sambar — Plan Indian meals, shop smarter.

Sambar is a meal-planning and grocery companion built for Indian kitchens. Pick the dishes you want to cook, and Sambar turns them into one clean, standardised shopping list — combining the ingredients across every recipe, checking what you already have at home, and telling you exactly how much to buy. No more scribbled lists, forgotten spices, or buying what's already sitting in the cupboard.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Browse a curated catalogue of South- and North-Indian dishes — rasams, sambars, curries, dals, dosas, idlis, rotis, rice and biryani, chutneys, raitas, snacks, soups and sweets — organised into clear categories by cuisine, with a veg / non-veg marker on every dish.
• Search any dish by name, or use "What Can I Cook?" to find the recipes you can make right now from the ingredients you already have.
• See each recipe's ingredients, servings, main ingredients, a reference link and its nutrition at a glance, then open step-by-step cooking notes.
• Mark favourites and keep your most-cooked dishes a single tap away.

A SMARTER SHOPPING LIST

• Add dishes to your cart and generate one shopping list for all of them together — ingredients are merged automatically, so nothing is listed twice.
• Sambar checks your Pantry and skips what you've already got, so you only buy what you actually need.
• Every item shows a sensible, real-world buying quantity (a 500 g pack, a 1 kg bag, 6 pcs…) that you can adjust any time.
• Tick items off as you shop, and share the whole list as plain text (for WhatsApp, Notes or email) or comma-separated (ready to paste into Instamart, BigBasket and other delivery apps (Only in India)).

YOUR OWN RECIPES

• Add your own dishes with their ingredients, quantities and servings — they sit right alongside the built-in ones and flow into your shopping list the same way.
• Attach your personal method or cooking notes (a .txt or Markdown file) to any recipe, so everything stays in one place.

PLAN BY MEAL

• Get combo ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner, refreshed through the week, so deciding what to cook is effortless.
• Choose how many combos you'd like to see at a time.

INGREDIENT NAMES IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Every ingredient can be shown in the language you shop in — English, Hindi (both Latin and Devanagari), Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati or Malayalam. Switch the name right on the shopping list, so there's never any confusion at the store or when sharing the list with family or household help.

NUTRITION AT A GLANCE

Each dish shows its calories per serving and the share of a typical daily reference, making it easier to plan lighter or more balanced meals.

GREAT FOR

• Families planning the week's cooking and groceries together.
• Students and first-time cooks who want trusted recipes and an exact buy list.
• Anyone who hates food waste and wants to buy only what's needed.
• Multilingual homes where everyone names ingredients a little differently.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Sambar works offline and keeps your data on your device. Your recipes, pantry, favourites and shopping lists stay with you — no account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking.

Whether you're cooking for two or planning a week of groceries for the whole family, Sambar makes Indian meal planning and shopping simpler, faster and waste-free — turning "what should we cook, and what do we need to buy?" into a couple of taps.

Happy cooking!

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