Sambar

My sambar recipe which is loved at my home

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1  cup  tuvar dal
• 2  cups water (or more if reqd - just an inch over the level of the dal)
• 2  onions, sliced
• 2  tomatoes, chopped
•  salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 2  green chilies, slit
• 1⁄2 inch gingerroot (minced)
• 2  brinjals, chopped
• 1  small  yam (skinned and cut into bite sized pcs)
• 1  small  red pumpkin (a small pc cut like the yam)
• 3  French beans (stringed and cut into pcs)
• 1  carrot (peeled and cubed)
• 2  vegetable drumsticks
• 2  tablespoons  oil
• 4 -6  cloves garlic, with skin
• 1⁄4 teaspoon asafoetida powder (hing)
• 1  teaspoon tamarind pulp, soaked in water
• 2  teaspoons  sambhar powder (I use MTR sambar powder)
•  curry leaf
• 1⁄2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cumin seed
•  cilantro leaf (to garnish)

Directions

1. Put all the ingredients from the dal to the carrot into a pressure cooker and cook for one whistle and simmer for 3 mins and take the cooker off the heat till the pressure subsides Take out the cover and add the drumsticks, sambar powder and extract of the tamarind Put the cooker back on the fire without the weight and boil till the drumsticks cook In a small fry pan heat oil Add the hing, curry leaves, mustard and cumin seeds and the garlic (just hit them a little to break the skin) Heat till the cumin and garlic are browned slightly Add to the cooked dal and stir to mix Garnish with chopped cilantro.