White Pumpkin Sambar

White Pumpkin Sambar

Ingredients:

• White Pumpkin - 2 Cup
• Toor dal – 1/2 cup
• Sambar onion [Shallots] – 7 to 10
• Tomato - 1 Medium Size
• Turmeric powder – 1/4 Tea Spoon
• Sambar Powder - 1 1/2 Table Spoon (Any Branded / Chettinad Samabar Powder)
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Mustard seeds – 1 Table Spoon
• Urad dhal - 1/2 Table Spoon
• Red Chilli - 1
• Tamarind – Small Lemon Size
• Asafetida - a pinch
• Salt - 1 Table Spoon 
• Oil – 2 Table Spoon

How to Make:

• Soak tamarind in a cup of water.
• Peel Pumpkin and cut into cubes pumpkin like cubes.
• Wash & Pressure-cook toor dal for 3-4 whistles with pinch of turmeric powder. If Pan / Kadai, cook toor dal until smash.
• Once tool dal is cooked, add White Pumpkin cubes and cook for 5 Minutes and Keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan then add mustard seeds then add urad dhal. Once it’s spluttered add onion saute till soft then add red chilli, curry leaves, asafetida.
• Now add cooked Toor Dal and pumpkin.
• Add Tamarind extract.
• Add Sambar Powder and salt. Let it cook for 10 Minutes.
• Now Sambar is ready to eat with Idly, Dosai, Rice, Idiyappam, Upma, Chappathi and more...