Sambar – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take chopped bottle gourd, chopped carrot and chopped bringle into a pot.
• Add water and put the pot into cooker.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until 1 whistle. Take the pot out.
• Take tur dal and wash it really good.
• Add water, onion, tomato.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until 3-4 whistles.
• Beat the dal really good with beater and keep it aside.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Lower down the heat. Add cumin seeds, dried red chillies, fenugreek seeds, asafoetida, turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder and sambar masala.
• Fry the masala for a minute and add cooked dal, boiled veggies, tamarind pulp and salt to taste.
• Mix well and add water to adjust the consistency.
• Boil the sambar for 10 minutes. Sambar is already.
• Sambar goes well with idly, dosa, uttapa, medu vada or even boiled rice.