Recipes & Tips

SAMBAR

Ingredients:

·      2 Cup Tuvar Dal (Arhar Dal)

·      3 Red Chiles

·      3 Green Chiles

·      1/4 tsp Methi

·      1 tsp Sambhar powder

·      Curry leaves, a few

·      Hing (Asafetida), a small pinch

·      Salt 1 tsp Salt (to taste)

·      Cooking Oil

·      2 tsp Mustard

·      1/2 tsp Turmeric

·      1/4 tsp. Tamarind Paste

·      2 tsp. Vegetables (Drumstick, Green Pepper, Eggplant, Okra)

·      Washed and diced

Method:

·      Cook thuvar dal and turmeric with extra water, on medium flame. Separate the two, and keep them aside.

·      Cook the vegetables in thuvar dal water, and add turmeric and salt to this.

·      After this is cooked, add tamarind paste.

·      Heat some oil in a pan, splutter mustard, then add methi, red chilies, green chiies, curry leaves, asafetida , turmeric and sambhar powder and keep frying for a few minutes.

·      Add this to the boiling vegetables.

·      Add the thuvar dal and let it cook for a few more minutes.