sambar

Ingredients :-

Toor daal - 1cup     
Mixed vegetables - 1 cup     
Onion -1     
Tomato -2     
Sambhar powder -2 tsp     
Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp     
Tamarind lemon size  

Garlic –few pods (optional) 
Salt to taste     

Tempering:-

Red chillies - 2
Mustard -½ tsp     
Urad daal - 1 tsp     
Asafoetida -½ tsp     
Fenugreek -¼ tsp  

Curry leaves -8

Oil - 4tsp

Coriander leaves -1/2cup

Procedure:-

Soak the tamarind in 1 cup water for 20 minutes. Squeeze it out and filter the pulp.  Wash and clean the daal. Choose a heavy cooking pot/vessel/pressure cooker 2 cups       of water and the daal, turmeric powder, few garlic pods. Boil until the daal is soft and then mash it coarsely. If needed, add more water as it is boiling.

In a pan, heat 2tsp of oil, add onion, tomatoes, mixed vegetables and sauté for 2 mins. Add the tamarind pulp and let the vegetables boil until they are cooked. Add sambhar powder and daal to this mixture. Add salt as per your taste and allow this to cook for 5 to 10 minutes and remove from the heat.

In a separate pan, heat to medium and pour in the remaining oil. Once the oil is hot, add the chilies, fenugreek and curry leaves, mustard seeds, when they start spluttering add  sambhar and sauté for 2 minutes.  Garnish with cilantro.

Serve hot.

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