Keerai Sambar

Ingredients:

• Keerai (Any green) - chopped finely one cup
• Too dhal – Half cup
• Tamarind – small lemon size
• Sambar powder – 1 tablespoon
• Green Chilly - 2 No
• Turmeric powder – ¼ teaspoon
• Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste

For Seasoning

• Oil - 2 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Asafetida - a pinch
• Mustard - 1/2 tsp
• Jeera - 1/2 tsp
• Sambar onion – 4 or 5 cut length wise

Method

1. wash the toor dhal and add 2 cup of water add turmeric powder and cook this in a pressure cooker.
2. Peel of small onions and slit green chilies.
3. Clean the keerai,and chop it...not too fine.
4. Extract the tamarind juice
5. Heat a pan and put oil and add all seasoning item one by one and add green chilly and fry till onions turn golden brown, take care not to burn.
6. Add this to the tamarind extract,with salt,turmeric and sambar powder and bring to boil.(Add required water).
7. After 2 minutes add the chopped keerai,and turn the keerai so that it gets immersed .
8. Boil till keerai gets cooked,check the stem for cooked or not.
9. Add toor dhal and allow to boil for 2 more minutes ,keerai sambar is ready.