Sambar Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 Cup Tuvar Dal (Arhar Dal)
• 3 Red Chiles
• 3 Green Chiles
• 1/4 tsp Methi
• 1 tsp Sambhar powder
• Curry leaves, a few
• Hing (Asafetida), a small pinch
• Salt 1 tsp Salt (to taste)
• Cooking Oil
• 2 tsp Mustard
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric
• 1/4 tsp. Tamarind Paste
• 2 tsp. Vegetables (Drumstick, Green Pepper, Eggplant, Okra),
• Washed and diced

Method

• Cook thuvar dal and turmeric with extra water, on medium flame. Separate the two, and keep them aside.
• Cook the vegetables in thuvar dal water, and add turmeric and salt to this.
• After this is cooked, add tamarind paste.
• Heat some oil in a pan, splutter mustard, then add methi, red chilies, green chiies, curry leaves, asafetida , turmeric and sambhar powder and keep frying for a few minutes.
• Add this to the boiling vegetables.
• Add the thuvar dal and let it cook for a few more minutes.