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Sambar (South Indian Style) 

Ingredients

• Oil - 1 tbs
• Toor dal - 1/2 cup
• Tomato - 1
• Sambar powder - 1/2 tbs
• Chow chow / Drumstick - 1 cup 
• Tamarind juice - small all size
• Tumeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Dry chilly - 1
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Methi seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Hing - few
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Small onion - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Green chilli - 1
• Salt - as required
• Mustard - 1 tsp

Method

1. Wash the dal ; Pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles and mash them.

2. In a pan add cooked dal, small onions, broken green chillies, salt, veggies and turmeric powder ; Cook for 5 minutes. add water if necessary.

3. Extract the tamarind juice by soaking tamarind in half cup of water ; Add to the dal when the vegetables are 3/4th cooked.

4. Heat oil in a pan ; Add mustard, cumin, methi seed, dry chilly, hing, curry leaves and sambar powder and switch off the flame ; Add to the boiling dal.

5. Garnish with coriander leaves, jaggery and ghee.