Shallots Sambar

Ingredients:-

• Shallot - Vengayam - 3/4 Kg
• Red gram dhal/Toor dhal - Thuvaram paruppu - 1 cup
• Tamarind - Puli - lemon size
• Red chilly - Kaintha milagai - 1 no.
• Green chilly - Pachai milagai - 1 no.
• Turmeric powder - Manjal podi - 1 tea spoon
• Sambar powder - Sambar podi - 3 table spoon
• Fenugreek powder - Vendaya powder - 1/2 table spoon
• Hing/Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch

For tempering:

• Oil - Ennai - for frying
• Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
• Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
• Fenugreek seeds - Vendayam - 1/2 tea spoon
• Black gram dal - Ulutham parupppu - 1 tea spoon
• Curry leaves - Karuvepilai - small quantity

Other items:

• Coriander/Cilantro - For garnishing
• Salt

Method:

• Wash and soak dal in water for some 10 minutes.
• Add little turmeric, hing and a drop of oil and pressure cook it for 5 whistles and in low flame for 7 minutes.
• Cut shallots and keep other ingredients ready.
• Make tamarind paste,and keep pan in stove
• Heat oil, splutter mustard, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chilly, green chilly, black gram dal, curry leaves, garlic.
• Add shallots, red chilly powder, coriander powder, salt, sambar powder, tamarind extract.
• Transfer the same into a pressure cooker and cook till 1 whistle .
• Now add boiled and mashed dhal and cook the content for some minutes till it gets boiled vigorously. Finally add fenugreek powder and garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.

Note: Tamarind may have dust particles, so remove them using filter.