Tirunelveli Sambar

Sambar:
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Ingredients:  
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Vegetables (Brinjal or Drumstick or Potato or Carrot or Beans or Mango) - as required
Chopped Onino - 1/2
Small Onion - 5
Tomato - 1
Turmeric powder - 1/4 spoon
Chillies - 5
Sambar powder - 3 spoons
Thuvaram paruppu (Toor Dal) - 1 cup
Jeeragam - 1 spoon
Garlic - 3 pods
vendhyam - 1/2 spoon
Kayam - little amount
mustard seeds - 1 spoon
Curry leaves - 1 bunch

Preparation:
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1) Add oil, mustard seeds, Jeeragam and vendhyam in a pan and fry
2) Add kayam, garlic and curry leaves to the mix
3) Add chopped onion, small onions and chillies. Fry till golden brown
4) Add chopped tomato, vegetables, turmeric powder, sambar powder and salt
5) fry well, add water and bring it to boil
6) Pressure cook the toor dal with salt, turmeric powder and few drops of oil till 5 whistles
7) Add the cooked toor dal and tamarind juice
8) Bring it to boil and add the chopped coriandar leaves
9) Sambar is ready

Addition:
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If required, grind coconut with jeeragam and add to the sambar. Gives more taste.