Sambar Recipe.

A very quick recipe for sambar, Try it .

Ingredients

1/2 cup of arahar dal

1/2 cup of tamarind water 

1 Tomato big sliced

1 onion sliced 

1 carrot cubed 

1 potato cubed 

1 drumstick pieces or lady finger

2 green chillies slit 

3 tbsp of sambar masala

1/2 cup bottle gourd

2 tbsp oil

1 tsp mustard seeds

10 curry leaves

a pinches of hing

1 tsp chilli powder

a pinch of turmeric

salt to taste

2 Dry red chilli

For tamarind water--

Soak a small ball of tamarind in warm water and squeeze the juice. Discard pulp and seeds. You will have a cup of liquid at the end.

Wash the dal and drain,

Combine the dal with 2 1/2 cups of water add Tomato, carrot, potato, drumstick & bottle gourd in a pressure cooker and cook for 15 min.

Add turmeric, chilli powder, onion, sambar masala, salt & tamarind water  mix well and bring to boil.

cook on a medium flame for 5 minutes,stir occasionally.Switch of the flame.

Heat the oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds, 

curry leaves, Dry red chilli, green chilli and asafoetida and sauté for a few seconds.Add it to sambar.Serve hot.

 This sambar can be served with rice, idli & dosa.

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