Ingredients:

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Main | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Toor Dal – 1/2 cup
Tomato – 2 small roughly chopped
Carrot – 2 small roughly chopped
Sambar powder – 1 heaped tsp
Turmeric powder – 2 pinches
Thin tamarind pulp – 1 tbsp
Water – as required
Ghee – 1 tsp
Salt – to taste

Oil – 2 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Split Urad Dal – 1/2 tsp
Small Onion – 10
Hing – 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves – a sprig
Fenugreek Seeds – 1/4 tsp

Directions:

1-Rinse dal and set aside.In a pressure cooker heat oil add tomato and carrot saute till tomatoes becomes mushy then add dal along with turmeric powder and salt.Add water and pressure cook for 4 whistles in low medium flame.

2- Allow pressure to release by itself.Mash the dal well and heat it up.Make a paste with sambar powder and little water and add it to the boiling sambar.

3- Let it boil, add water to adjust the consistency if it becomes too thick.Let it boil for a good 5mins.

4- Then add tamarind water.In a kadai – add the items listed under ‘to temper’ saute it for a minute.

5- Add it to sambar and let it boil for 5more minutes.Then garnish with coriander leaves , add a tsp of ghee and switch off.

6- Ina  serving plate place the idlis and pour hot sambar over the idlis so that they are nicely dunked inside.Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.