Sambhar

Ingredients:

1 Carrot (cut like thin circles)
1 Medium size onion, chopped
Marble sized tamarind
1 serving spoon cooking oil
1 cup of  Toor dhal
2 tsp sambhar powder
1 tsp salt (full headed)
little coriander(washed and chopped)
water
small pinch of Asafoetida powder /Hing

Method:
1. Cook dhal in pressure cooker with nice amount of water.
    Over cook the dhal so that u can mash it with serving spoon.
2. Open the lid mash it, add Hing and keep aside.
3. Soak the tamarind with little water for 1/2 hr
4. Heat large pan (heavy bottomed pan). Pour oil and add vegetables and fry it for 2mins
5. Add sambhar powder and salt. Make a tamarind paste and add.
6. Pour water so that the vegetables will cook for 5-7 mins.
   Don't add more water. Later we have to add dhal water also.
7. Add dhal and allow it to boil for 5 mins or until it cook well.
8. Switch off the gas. Season mustard seeds with little oil and add to sambhar.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with hot rice and ghee(optional).

Hints:

1. If you feel the sambhar is  little sour taste you can add little pepper powder.Don't add more so it will give different taste.
2. You can use more vegetables like beans, chow-chow, drumsticks, eggplant, white radish and capsicum etc..
3. You can mix vegetables according to the taste like carrot n beans, chow-chow n carrot, capsicum n carrot n beans according to your taste.... mix n match.
4. While seasoning the mustard seeds you can add 1 dry red chillies also. It will give good aroma.
5. Sambhar should not be more watery or very thick.
6. I won't add turmeric powder in sambhar. Because its already added in sambhar powder.
 if not, then you can add little turmeric powder.


Thanks for reading :)