It is a delicious traditional South Indian lentil and mix vegetable stew made using special spice powder. This sambar dal is a great side dish, easy to make and significantly served as a breakfast along with soft idli, vada, dosa.

In kerala sambar is the main dish in sadya, it is a curry side dish for sadya. Sambar making is fun, bacause, there are number of ways to cook it. Only keralites add coconut in sambar. We can make it very tastily without coconut or even sambar powder.

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For cooking dal, take pressure cooker, add washed dal, shallots, coconut oil, turmeric, hing and some curry leaves, pour water, then close the lid, cook it for 2-3 whistle, then turn off flame.

Once the pressure gone, add chopped potato, carrot, onion and drumstick into it, add tamarind pulp, then cook it for 1 whistle. Saute tomato and ladies finger in oil, then add to pressure cooker, . Take a pan, add coriander powder, fenugreek powder, and chilly powder, heat it well, then add cooked veggies into the pan, boil it well. Finally, for seasoning, heat oil in a small pan, add mustard to pop, then add dry chilly and curry leaves,add a little hing and fenugreek powder,mix it well, then add to sambar, add coriander leaves. sambar is ready.

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