Sambar

Name: Sambar
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: For gravy; 2 cup bottle guard; 1 1/2 cup pumpkin; 1 1/2 cup potatoes; 1 cup onion; 1 cup toor dal or ahrar dal; 2 tsp sambar masala; Salt as taste; 1/2 tsp turmeric; For tadka; 3 tsp oil; 3 onions; 2 Tomatoes; 5-6 buds garlic paste; 1 1/2 inch ginger paste; 1 cup tamarind water; Salt as taste; Red chili powder; 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1/2 tsp corinder powder; 1/2 garam masala; 1 tsp sambar masala; 2 dry red chilies; 1 bay leaves; leaves Some curry; Corinder leaves fine chopped

Tanika Grover Mehta @yuvanika

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Tanika Grover Mehta @yuvanika

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Ingredients

For gravy
2 cupbottle guard
1 1/2 cuppumpkin
1 1/2 cuppotatoes
1 cuponion
1 cuptoor dal or ahrar dal
2 tspsambar masala
Salt as taste
1/2 tspturmeric
For tadka
3 tspoil
3onions
2Tomatoes
5-6buds garlic paste
1 1/2 inchginger paste
1 cuptamarind water
Salt as taste
Red chili powder
1/2 tspmustard seeds
1/2 tspcorinder powder
1/2garam masala
1 tspsambar masala
2dry red chilies
1bay leaves
leavesSome curry
Corinder leaves fine chopped

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Steps

1

Take a cooker and boil 2½cup water. Add bottle guard,pumpkin,potatoes, and onions (All have to be roughly chopped). Add salt, turmeric and sambar masala and toor dal to it. Cover with lid. Wait for 5-6 whistle on medium to low flame.
2

Take a pan heat up oil. Add dry red chilies, bay leaf, and mustard seeds to it. Within 30 seconds Add ginger,garlic paste. After 30 -40 seconds add thin slice chopped onion and cook it untill golden brown. Then add tomatoes and cook it for about 1 minutes. Then add all spices. Salt, red chili powder,corinder powder, sambar masala, garam masala and stir it while cooking. Cook it untill oil releases.
3

Then add vegetable gravy to it and give it a good mix.then add tamarind water to it. Or add same water if required. Boil it for 5 minutes. And its ready. Add some fine chopped corinder leaves to it.