Sambar

Ingredients

• 1 cup tuvar dal
• 2 cups water (or more if reqd - just an inch over the level of the dal)
• 2 onions, sliced
• 2 tomatoes, chopped
• salt
• 12 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 2 green chilies, slit
• 12 inch gingerroot (minced)
• 2 brinjals, chopped
• 1 small yam (skinned and cut into bite sized pcs)
• 1 small red pumpkin (a small pc cut like the yam)
• 3 French beans (stringed and cut into pcs)
• 1 carrot (peeled and cubed)
• 2 vegetable drumsticks
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 4 -6 cloves garlic, with skin
• 14 teaspoon asafetida powder (hing)
• 1 teaspoon tamarind pulp, soaked in water
• 2 teaspoons sambhar powder (I use MTR sambar powder)
• curry leaf
• 12 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 12 teaspoon cumin seed
• cilantro leaf (to garnish)