Sambar

Sambar Recipe

Ingredients

Toor Dal (red Lentils) 2cup
1 /2 kg of a vegetable of your choice like green beans, brinjal, ghiya, Drumstick etc
Tamarind paste 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder 1/2 teaspoon
green chillies
REd chilli Powder
oil 2 teaspoons
Salt to taste
5 small dry red chilies
Curry Leaves
onion 2
Tomato - 2
mustard seeds 1 tsp
asafoetida (optional)
fenugreek seeds 1/2 teaspoon
2 tablespoons sambar powder (see my another blog how to make sambar masala)

Method:

1. Cook the dal with turmeric and salt.
2. In the same water cook (boil) veggies. green chillies and red chilli powder and then add tarmind paste to it.

3. Mix dal with veggies.

4. heat the pan and add oil
5. Splutter mustard, fenugreek seeds, red chillies, green chillies, curry leaves, hing, turmeric, and sambhar powder and keep frying for a few minutes.
6. Add onion and tomato.
7. Add masala to dal & veggetables and boil them for few more minutes

8. Add few curry leaves.