Easy sambar without coconut

For the preparing sambar you need the below ingredients.

1	Toor Dal	1 cup
2	Onion	1
3	Tomato	1
4	Green chilli	2
5	Carrot	1
6	beans	3
7	Kunduru / Kovakka	2
8	Vellarikka	A small piece
9	Tarmaid	small piece
10	Musturd seeds	1 pinch
11	Dried Red chilli	1
12	Curry Leaves	1 spring
13	Hing	1 pinch
14	Turmeric powder	1/2 tsp
15	sambar powder	1 tbsp
16	coriander powder	1 tsp
17	Coriander leaves
18	Oil	2 tsp
19	Salt	As required

Here I have included some vegetables which we can cut easily and that makes your sambar tastes good as well.

First put the tamarind in a bowl with little water and keep aside. 

Pressure cook the toor dal and mash it and keep it aside, in the meantime cut all the vegetable. Keep the cooker on the gas stove and pore 1 tsp oil to it. Put the sliced onion and stir it till it becomes soft and add green chilli, curry leaves and tomato also. Stir it for a minute and add carrot, beans, lauki, drumstick etc (whatever vegetable you want to put).

Stir it for a minute and then add turmeric powder, coriander powder, sambar powder , salt as mentioned in the above table. Pressure cook vegetable and once done open the cooker and mix the mashed daal with the vegetable. Squeeze out the tamarind pulp and water and pour it to the cooker. Let the sambar boil for a minute. Switch of the flame and keep it aside.

In a small pan add oil, musterd seeds, dry red chilly and curry leaves and make it splutter for a minute. Put some hing in the mix and pour this seasoning into the sambar. Put some coriander leaves also on the top. Sambar is ready!!!

The sambar preparation looks lengthy but it is very simple and trust me it will not take more than 15 minutes to do this. You can prepare tea also parallel.

Tips :-

Soak toor dal at night itself so that morning it will get cooked fast.

Cut the vegetable at night if you have time.

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