Sambar

Ingredients

• • Onions (small, peeled) - 1 cup
• • Thuar dal - ½ cup
• • Tamarind - lime size
• • Tomatoes - 2
• • Green chillies - 2
• • Salt - as required
• • Oil - 2 teaspoons
• • Coriander leaves - a little
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig

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Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Asafoetida powder - a pinch

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Ingredients For Masala

• • Dhania - 2 ½ teaspoons
• • Black gram dal - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Cumin seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 2 teaspoons
• • Red chillies - 8
• • Fenugreek - a pinch
• • Coconut (fresh, grated) - ¼ cup

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Method To Prepare Masala

• 1. Heat a teaspoon of oil and fry the above ingredients until golden.
• 2. Fry 1 onion and 1 tomato with little oil separately.
• 3. Grind everything with ¼ cup of grated fresh coconut and 1 Tablespoon of roasted gram.

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Method

• 1. Heat oil in a shallow pan and fry the small onion for 1 or 2 minutes.
• 2. Add enough water and boil it till soft.
• 3. Cook red gram dal in pressure cooker and mash well.
• 4. Soak tamarind, and extract.
• 5. Mix cooked onions, mashed dal, tamarind extract ground paste with enough salt, slit green chillies, cut tomatoes, and boil with enough water added to it.
• 6. When the sambar is thick enough, remove from fire.
• 7. Heat one teaspoon of oil, add mustard seeds to splutter, pour over sambar with little asafoetida powder.
• 8. Garnish with cut coriander leaves and curry leaves.