Ladysfinger Sambar -Vendakai Sambar

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

Preparation:
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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