Sambar with Bottle Gourd

Ingredients:

1. Thur Dal - 1 cup
2. Bottle gourd - ½ kg (cut into big cubes as shown)
3. Tomatoes - 2 (cut into big cubes as shown)
4. Daniya powder - 2 sps
5. Red chilli powder - 2 sps
6. Turmeric powder - 1 sp
7. Ginger - 2 sps (grated)
8. Salt - 1 sp

Method:

1. Cook thurdal in pressure cooking with 2 pinchs of hing and turmeric powder ½ sp for 20 mins.
2. Cook these above ingredients with ½ glass of water along with dal but in separate bowl. (as shown)
3. Pour Tamarind juice 1 cup, 1 or 2 onions sliced and karipatha. (as shown)
4. For tadka (in a deep pan) add Rai - 1sp, Jeera - 1sp, Red chilli - 2. Fry for 1 min, and add sliced onion and karipatha leaves. Fry till the onions are cooked.
5. Now mix the cooked dal, cooked bottle gourd and tamarind juice together in the tadka. Add salt as per ur taste.
6. Bring the whole sambar to a boil. (approx. For 15 mins).
7. Simple and taste sambar with all the ingredients available at home is ready.