Mangalorean Sambar Recipe | Vegetables Sambar

I usually cook lentils(yellow toor daal) and vegetables separately. I wont pressure cook the daal, since i dont like mashed daal.  

I use small brinjals, potatoes and carrots. you can add any vegetables of your choice.

Ingredients:

  Toor daal - 1 cup 
  cleaned and chopped vegetables - 1.5 cups
  salt for taste
  marble sized tamarind  - half cup of thick water
  haldi powder - 1 tsp
  hing powder - 1/2 tsp
  Sambar powder - 2 tsp
  red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  
Seasoning:
  Oil - 2 tsp
  mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
  garlic - 3 cloves
  ginger - 1/2 inch finely chopped
  dry red chillies -  2 to 3 
  curry leaves (optional) - few leaves
  methi seeds (optional) - 1/2 tsp
  
Method:

  Soak tamarind in water for 15 minutes. wash the daal in the water and boil daal with salt, haldi and water until its done. 
Add all the chopped vegetables to a kadai, add pinch of salt, water and boil till vegetables are cooked.  mix cooked daal and vegetables in a big vessel.

Now, add oil to a seasoning kadai, add mustard seeds. When mustard seeds starts spluttering add chopped ginger, garlic, red chillies and methi seeds fry for few minutes. add onions and wait till they are golden brown. Now add chopped tomatoes, red chilli, hing powder  and sambar powder. when oil starts leaving the mixture add tamarind paste and cook for few minutes.  pour the whole tempering mixture to hot smabar. Serve the hot sambar with steamed rice, idli, dosa.