Sambhar

Sambhar

Ingredients

Pigeon peas (Toor Dal) 1 cup
Vegetable (Green beans, carrot, drum stick etc) 1 cup
Onion (payaz), sliced ½ cup
Tomato (tamater), sliced ½ cup
Tamarind (imli) pulp 3 table spoon
Turmeric (haldi) Powder ½ tea spoon
Vegetable oil 2 table spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Dry red chilies (sabut lal mirch) 2 piece
Mustard (sarso) seeds ½ tea spoon
Asafetida (hing) a pinch
Sambar powder 2 table spoon

Instructions

  1. Choose a heavy cooking pot. Wash and clean the pigeon peas (dal).
  2. Boil 2 cups of water and add the pigeon peas (dal), turmeric powder and salt.
  3. As the dal boils, add onion, tomato and cook it for 10 minutes.
  4. Now add vegetables and boil till it becomes soft.
  5. Boil until the dal is soft and then mash it coarsely.
  6. If needed, add more water as it is boiling but do not let it get too watery. Add sambar masala, tamarind and boil. Adjust salt and put the flame off.
  7. Put 1 table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, asafetida, curry leaves and red chilli. Fry for 2 minutes and put this into dal and serve it with Dosa or Idly.

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