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Ingredients:
1 cup of Sambar dal
½ tsp of turmeric powder
A small lime sized ball of tamarind
10-15 ladysfingers(vendakai), each cut into 3” pieces
Tomato -1
Salt-to taste
To temper,
Refined oil as per requirments
½ tsp of mustards
½ tsp of urad dal
2 pinches of hing/perunkayam
10-15 small sized pearl onions/chinna vengayam/ulli
3 green chillies slit lengthwise
A stalk of curry leaves/karuveppilai
Cilantro/kothamalli
First, cook sambar dal along with little turmeric &salt in a pressure cooker with water until the dal becomes soft.Till then, fry the ladyfingers on a pan with little oil.Also, soak aside the tamarind until all the juice is visible.
Then, temper the ingredients given above and saute them well.After the onion turns golden brown, add tomatos and fried ladysfinger.Saute them for a minute .Then add, cooked sambar dal ,and chilly powder .Cook all for 5 mintues.
Finally add, the turmeric water and little coconut paste and boil for some more 5 minutes .
Serve Sambar with cilantro and curry leaves for taste.
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