pumpkin sambar

PUMPKIN SAMBAR

Whenever i cook this sambar , i remember my perima yummy pumpkin sambar.. During my college days, i used to stay with my perima..She used to make this yummy pumpkin sambar...

Sambar is a dish where everyone make it on their style..each vegetable give sambar different dimension of taste.. Pumpkin sambar is very simple but very tasty ..

Ingredients:

1. Yellow pumpkin - 1/4 kg
2. Onion -2 no
3. Tomato - 1 no
4. Tamarind paste
5. Green chilli - 2 no
6. Tumeric powder 
7. Chilli powder
8. Salt to taste
9. Toor dal - 1 cup
10. Corriander leaves
11. Curry leaves
12. Musturd seeds
13. Asafoetidia
14. Jaggery 

Preparation:

• Pressure cook the toor daal with garlic ,cumin seeds,asafoetidia
• In the sauce,add oil then add musturd seeds ,curry leaves and asafoetidia
• Saute well the onion ,chilli and tomato..
• Then add tumeric powder, chilli powder and salt according to your taste
• Saute well till the raw taste disappears
• Add pumpkin..mix well.. add water.. let it cook well
• Add daal and tamarind paste..
• At the end add little jaggery , this will enhance the taste