Sambar

Ingredients:

Red gram: 1 cup

Tamarind: 50 grams (size of a lemon) (soak tamarind in 1 cup of water for 10 minutes and extract pulp)

Water:  1 liter

Salt:  as per taste

Mixed vegetables:  2 cups (radish, ash gourd, bottle gourd, drum stick, lady finger)

Green chilies:  four

Turmeric:  a pinch

Onions: two big

Curry leaves and coriander:  as you wish

Tomato: one

Ingredients for sambar masala:

Coriander seeds:  1 tablespoon

Black pepper corns:  1 teaspoon

Fenugreek seeds:  1 teaspoon

Asafetida:  a pinch

Rice:  1 tablespoon

Dry red chillies:  three

 Grated coconut:  Two table spoons

Oil: one tablespoon

Tomatoes:  two small

Procedure:

First, prepare the masala for sambar.  Take a pan and heat it, heat oil in it and fry all the ingredients given for 

sambar masala except tomatoes and coconut. Now grind all the ingredients adding coconut and tomatoes into paste.

Boil red gram dal, radish, green chillies, and tomato together.

Now take a deep-bottomed pan, add the boiled dal and tamarind pulp mixed vegetables, turmeric, salt and water as specified, and bring to boil.

When the vegetables are tender add the ground masala paste and cook for another five minutes.

Now add coriander leaves, curry leaves, and dish out the sambar