Sambar

Sambar

 

Ingredients

• Tuvar dhal - 3/4 cup
• Vegetables - 3 cups (like sambar onions, white
• pumpkin, chow-chow)
• Tamarind - lemon size
• Coriander leaves - 2 tablespoons
• Curry leaves - 1 tablespoon
• Rasam powder - 2 teaspoon
• Salt - 1-3/4 teaspoon - 2 teaspoons
• Sugar - 1-1/2 teaspoon (optional)
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Green chillies - 2-4.
• Seasoning
• Oil - 1 tablespoon
• Red chilli - 1
• Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
• Black gram dhal - 1/2 teaspoon
• Hing powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Procedure

1. Pressure cook dhal with one and a half cups of waterfor ten minutes.
2. When cold mash well.
3. Soak tamarind in one cup of water, for five minutes, squeeze well and strain out juice.
4. Cook vegetables in one and a half cups of water.
5. When Threequarter cooked add slit green chillies, salt and sugar.
6. Add tamarind water and simmer till raw smell disappears.
7. Add mashed p73 dhal, rasam powder and curry leaves.
8. Simmer tillthick, add coriander leaves.
9. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, black gram dhal and red chilli.
10. When mustard seeds splutter, add hing powder and
11. pour the seasoning over the sambar.
12. Serve sambar hot with rice and chips.