CARROT - ONION MASALA SAMBAR

CARROT - ONION  MASALA SAMBAR

This is a regular sambar with add on powder with a slight difference in the ingredients. So I am not giving any new podi for it. 

I will go to procedure straight

INGREDIENTS:

Carrot.                                2medium size cut into bits to suit sambar

Sambar onion.                    10

Add-on sambar podi.         2tsp

Tamarind.                           One lemon size

Or tamarind paste.              1 tsp 

Tomato.                             1 medium size

Green chilli.                        2

Ginger bit                          1/2 inch

Cinnamon.                         1/2 inch

Clove.                                3

Saunf( sombu).                   1/2 tsp 

                                                               Grated coconut.                  1 tbsp 

PROCEDURE 

1. Make tamarind solution with two cups of water adding required salt.

2. Cook carrot and onion in the cooker to make them soft.

3. Cook two tbsp of toor dal, mash and keep

4. Add the cooked carrot and onion to the tamarind solution and allow it to boil with half a tsp of turmeric powder for two minutes.

5. In a tsp of ghee fry coconut, cinnamon, saunf, clove, chilli-and ginger.

6.In a mixer grinder, grind all fried spices with tomato and two tsp of Add on sambar powder to a smooth paste.Mix it with a cup of water and add it to the cooked toor dhal.

7.Add the masala mixture to the boiling tamarind solution in the stove.

8. Add 1/2 tsp of jaggary powder and allow it to boil for just two minutes and switch off the stove.

9. Season in a tbsp of ginglee oil one tsp of mustard and a handful of curry leaves and add it to the masala Kuzhambu and garnish it with one tbsp of chopped coriander leaves.

10. This is more suitable to dosai, idly, Adai etc than for rice. Enjoy