Pearl onion sambar

Another ultimate dish for a food lover. Gets irresistible if you like it, you will end up making it every weekend.


You need
Pearl onions - 6
Choice of other vegetables - Radish, Capsicum, Okra, Drumstick
Cooked toor dal - 1 cup (mashed well)
Sambar powder - 1 tablespoon
Methi seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Green chilly - 2(slit)
Asafoetida - a pinch
Tamarind paste - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt
Oil

For paste

Coriander seeds- 1 tablespoon

Red chilly - 1

Coconut - 2 tablespoons (grated)

• In a separate pan add oil followed by red chilly, coriander seeds and coconut and sauté until the coconut turns slightly brown.
• Cool and grind the above into a fine paste with needed water.

Method

• In a deep vessel add oil and splutter mustard seeds followed by methi seeds, green chillies, curry elaves, Asafoetida, pearl onions and sauté until the onions becomes translucent for about 1 minute
• Add the tamamrind paste with required water, sambar powder and salt.
• Allow to boil well until the onions are cooked.
• When the onions are done, add the cooked toor dal followed by the above paste and boil for about 5-8 minutes.
• Garnish with corainder leaves and serve over a bed of steamed rice.