Tur dal - pressure cooked till soft - 1 cup
Onion - cut into slightly thick slices - 1 cup
Tomato - 1 - diced
Green chilli - 2 - slit
Tamarind - 1 small ball about the size of 1/2 a lemon
- soaked in water and 2 cups of pulp removed
Jaggery / palm sugar- 1 tbsp
Sambar powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
salt
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Oil (preferably coconut) - 2tbsp
mustard - 1 tsp
curry leaf - 6
red chilli - 2 broken
coriander leaf - 2 tbsp
Optional :
Ladies finger - 2 - cut into 1 inch batons
drumstick - 2 inch batons - 5 no:s
red pumpkin - 6 cubes
Heat oil and splutter the mustard, red chillies and curry leaf.
Into this add the sliced onions and green chillies and cook till onion turns transparent.
Add the tomatoes and cook till it turns soft.
If you are adding ladies finger or drumstick, add now and saute for a minute.
Add the tamarind pulp, salt and turmeric powder.
Pumpkin can be added now.
If not using the optional ingredients, simmer on a medium high flame . Otherwise cook covered on a low flame till the veggies (drumstick, ladies finger, pumpkin) get cooked.
Add the sambar powder and cook for another 2 minutes on a low flame.
Add the jaggery and the tur dal.
Boil for another 2 minutes.
Serve hot topped with coriander leaf.
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