Sambar

Ingredients: 
Dal - 1/2 glass
Onion - 1
Tomato - 2
Green chilli - 2
Vegetables - 2 carrot, 6 beans, 2 potatos, 3 ladys finger
Sambar powder - 2 tsp
Tamarind juice 
Asafoetida
Curry leaves 
Coraiander leaves


Take 2 hand full or half a glass of dal. Wash it well.
Put it in the cooker and add water enough to soak it. Water shd just stand above the dal.Set it on stove and cook in sim. Do not close the lid else the water would spill over.

Wash the vegetables - Beans, Carrot, Potato, any other you want to. After 5 mins add the vegetable to the dal. Add 1 onion sliced in square pieces or 10-15 sambar onions (small ones), 2 tomatos and 2 green chilli slit. Pour 1 tsp of oil and sprinkle a dash of turmeric powder. Close the cooker and put on the weight and cook until you hear the first whistle.

Meanwhile soak tamarind (size of a lemon) in water. You will need the juice.

In another vessel pour some oil and once it heats up add some mustard and let it crackle. You can fry ladys finger at this point of time. Once it is fried drain it from oil and add it to the cooker.
To the oil add the sambar powder; optionally you can add little chilli powder if you want it spicy. If the vessel is very hot it is better to remove it from stove and add the powder to the oil is to avoid it getting burnt once done. Add little Hing or asafoetida powder. 
Add the contents of the cooker (check if the veg and dal is cooked else you may want to cook it again) to the masala and add water as required. Now pour in the tamarind juice, check how tangy u need it and inorder to balance all the tastes you can add few scraps of jaggery (not much). Add some curry leaves and corainder leaves.Dilute it as much as you want by pouring water.
Let it boil for close to 10 minutes. 

Your sambar is ready!!!