Arachuvitta Vengaya Sambar

Almost perfect recipe

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 6  shallots
• 2  roma tomatoes
• 1  pinch ginger
• 2  teaspoons  vegetable oil
• 1  teaspoon  sambhar powder
• 4  teaspoons  toor dal
• 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric
• 1  pinch hing
• 1⁄4 teaspoon tamarind paste
• 1  teaspoon fenugreek seeds
• 3  red chilies
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  coriander seed
• 5  curry leaves
• 1⁄2 teaspoon coconut, turuval

Directions

1. Heat oil, add 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds.
2. Add curry leaves.
3. Add shallots.
4. After shallots are fried, add cut tomatoes.
5. Add sambhar powder.
6. Add tamarind paste( mixed with 1 cup water).
7. Boil toor dhal with turmeric and hing.
8. Fry redchillies, fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds.
9. Grind the above with coconut and little water.
10. Mix grinded mixture with boiled toor dhal and add to boiling sambhar. Add 1/2 cup dhal water.
11. Leave sambhar to boil for another 5 minutes.