Sambar

Ingredients
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* Vegetables: (One of )Onion, Potato etc
* Tamarind (Can substitute tomato instead of tamarind)
* Tomato -2 (optional)
* Sambar powder (contains red chilli powder, dhania powder, turmeric)
* Toor dal
* curry leaves
* Salt to taste
* Hing powder (asofoetida)
*Mustard Seed (1/2 tsp)
*Jeera (cumene) seeds (1/2 tsp)


Procedure
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-Pressure cook dal
--Soak small piece of tamarind in water and strain out tamarind and use the water
--Add vegetables to tamarind water and heat with sambar powder, salt, hing (perungaya podi or asofoetida powder), curry leaves and bring to boil
--Add cooked dal to the boling sambar
-- Prepare tadka (talichhu kottu = heat oil and add jeera and mustard seed until they pop and add cut tomatoes -optional). Turn off fire when tomatoes are cooked (if you are not using tomatoes, turn off fire as soon as mustard seed and jeera (cumene) start popping), and add cilantro.
-- Add above tadka  to sambar.