how to prepare sambar ?

Ingredients:

Toor Dal (thuvaramparupu) – 1 cup
Tamarind – gooseberry size
Small onion- 12 no’s
Water – 2 cups
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Castor oil – 1 tsp

For seasoning:

Oil – 3 spoons
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp 
Curry leaves – few
Green chili – 2
Sambar powder – 1 spoon
Coriander and curry leaves – for garnishing

For grinding:

Grated coconut – 1 cup
Garlic – 4 nos
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Tomato – 1(chopped)
Red chili – 3 nos

Steps to cook:

1. In a pan add one cup water and allow it to boil.
2. Wash the toordal and pour it to the boiling water and add I tsp castor oil.
3. After 10 minutes add turmeric powder and allow it to cook.
4. Toordal become mushy that stage switch off the stove and keep it aside. 
5. In the mean time dip the tamarind in the water, after 10 minutes extract the pulp and keep it aside.
6. Grind all the ingredients for grinding with little amount of water and keep it aside.
7. In a kadai, add oil and allow it to heat then add mustard seeds and small onion, (for vengaya sambar we use small onions otherwise we use big onion) fry for a minute and then add curry leaves and green chili.
8.  Now add the tamarind pulp, allow it to boil then add salt, Sambar powder.
9. After 5 minutes add the grinded masala and allow it to boil, the raw smell become disappear.
10. At last add the cooked toordal and cook for 5minutes.
11. Finally garnish with fresh coriander and curry leaves.

Tips:

This is a plain Sambar recipe; we can use vegetables also like drum stick, potato, carrot beans, brinjal etc.

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