Sambar: Tamilnadu Hotel style

Yipeee....Finally I got the recipe...After conducting several experiments.... I got it!!!!!!!!!I asked recipe to many persons..googled,searched a lot of cook books...but I was not satisfied with the result.Finally I took recipe from here and made little variation.Anyway result was awsome and when I served this sambar to my neighbour she asked me why you bought it from hotel?????????????

Ingredients :

• Toor dal / thuvaram paruppu : 1/2 cup
• Tomato (chopped ) : 1 big
• Onion (chopped ) : 1 big
• Turmeric powder : 1/4 tspn
• Tamarind : Small gooseberry size(optional)
• Salt

To roast and grind :

• Coriander seeds : 1 tblspn
• Roasted gram dal / Pottukadalai : 1 tblspn
• Grated coconut : 2 to 3 tblspn
• Chilly powder :  2 tspn
• Oil : 1 tspn

To temper :

• Mustard seeds : 1/2 tspn
• Fenugreek seeds / uluva /venthayam : 1/4 tspn
• Black gram /Ulutham paruppu / uzhunnu : 1/2 tspn
• Cumin seeds / jeera : 1/4 tspn
• Curry leaves
• Oil

To garnish :

• Coriander leaves : 1/4 cup
• Asafoetida / kayam /Perunkayam : A pinch

Method:

• Wash the thoor dal and pressure cook it with chopped tomato ,onion ,salt,turmeric powder and enough water.
• Mash it well and keep aside
• Now heat a pan with oil and add coriander seeds and pottukadalai .
• Roast it for 3 minutes and Switch off the flame.
• Now add grated coconut and chilly powder and mix it well
• Grind it in to a smooth paste and mix it with the cooked toor dal.
• Add tamarind extract too.(mix tamarind with water )
• Let it boil.
• Now heat a pan with oil and add mustard seeds,fenugreek seeds blackgram cumin seeds and curry leaves in the same oreder.
• Pour it in to the sambar and mix well
• Now add chopped coriander leaves and asafoetida.
• Yummy sambar is ready

Note:

• You can avoid roasting step.Grind all the ingredients without roasting.
• Use of shallots/sambar vengayam/kochulli will enhances the taste

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