Sambar

Ingredients:-

Toor Dal – ½ cup
Vegetables – 1 cup (carrot, beans, potato, brinjal) as per your choice
Tamarind water – ¼ cup
Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
Sambar masala – 1 ½ tsp
Green chilies – 2
Red chilies – 2
Onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp
Channa dal – ¼ tsp
Urad dal – ¼ tsp
Coriander leaves – to garnish

Method:-

Wash and cook the dal separately and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan and once it is heated up add channa dal, urad dal and mustard seeds. Allow mustard seeds to splutter and then add onion and fry till it turns into translucent. Once it is done add red chilies, green chilies and fry for few minutes and add tomato and fry till it turns into soft and mushy. Once it is done add the vegetables and enough water to cook the vegetables. Then add sambar powder, turmeric powder, salt and cook for few minutes and then add tamarind water and cook for 2 minutes. Finally add cooked dal to the mixture and mix it well and garnish it with coriander leaves.

Note: - If you need you can add chili powder too.

Dal with Tomato gravy

Usually dal is cooked with some vegetables or with spinach, but this in this recipe it is cooked with tomato. This recipe goes with plain rice, chappathi.

Ingredients:-

Toor dal – ¼ cup

Tomato- 3

Onion – 1

Green chili – 2

Urad dal – ½ tsp

Mustard seeds – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Curry leaf – 1 spring

Ghee – 2 tsp

Salt – to taste

Water – ½ cup

Coriander leaves – to garnish

Method:-

Wash the dal and cook in a pressure cooker for 4 whistles and keep aside. Heat ghee in a pan and add urad dal, mustard seeds and curry leaves. Allow it to splutter and add onion, green chili and fry till it turns into translucent and then add tomato, turmeric powder and cook till it becomes soft. Add water (if needed you can add more water, depends on how thick you need your gravy) and cover the vessel and cook till the mixture comes to boil.

Boiling mixture

Then add cooked dal with the tomato mixture and cook for 2 minutes. Finally garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Use ghee as it gives more taste and flavor to the dish.