Sambar

Ingredients

1. Cucumber 100 Gms
2. Snake Gourd 100 Gms
3. Brinjal 2 Nos
4. Drumsticks 2 Nos
5. Colocasia/Potato* 100 Gms
6. Amara ² 50 Gms
7. Toor Dal2 50 Gms
8. Tamarind a small lemon sized ball
9. Sambar powder 2½ tbsp
10. Tomato 2 nos.
11. Ladies finger 5 nos.
12. Curry leaves a few
13. Coriander leaves a few
14. Asafetida ¼ tsp
15. Mustard ¼ tsp
16. Small onion 100 Gms
17. Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
18. Salt to taste

Steps

1. Cook washed toor dal with a little salt, in a pressure cooker and set aside.
2. Wash and cut vegetable from sl.no 1 to 6 into 1 inch cubes
3. Add vegetables and peeled small onions together with adequate salt, and cook in a thick bottomed vessel till half done.
4. Mix sambar powder and asafetida thoroughly with a little water and add this paste into the half cooked vegetables.
5. Soak the tamarind for 10 minutes with one cup of water and squeeze it out and take the juice and add it into the half cooked vegetables.
6. Add cooked toor dal, diced tomato and cut ladies finger into it and cook the sambar till done.
7. Heat the veg. oil in a separate pan with curry leaves and mustard seeds and add this into the cooked sambar
8. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.