Araichuvitta Sambar

Preparation Time : 20 minutes

Cooking Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 2

Ingredients

Toor dal – ½ cup

Tamarind – lemon size

Vegetable of your choice(radish, drumstick, small onion and yellow pumpkin are best suited for this type of sambar)

Hing and salt to taste

To grind into paste

Dhania – 1 tbsp

Chana dhal – 1/2 tbsp

Urad dhal – 1 tbsp

Peppercorns – 4/5

Red Chillies – 5/6

Fenugreek – ¼ tsp

Dry roast and grind all the ingredients with water into a coarse paste

For seasoning

Oil - 1 tsp

Curry Leaves - A few 

Mustard - 1 tsp

Procedure

1. Pressure cook the toor dhal.

2. Soak the tamarind in 1 cup water and extract pulp from it. 

3. Boil the tamarind with salt and hing till the raw smell goes.

4. Add the cooked vegetable and the  ground paste and boil for a few more minutes.

5. Add the cooked dhal and boil for two minutes.

6. Finally add the tadka.