Onion sambar is a dish served with rice. It consists of small onions, tamarind extracts and spices.
Serving size: 5
Time taken: 1 hour
Ingredients for the dish:
Small red onions: 15
Tamarind: Small lemon size
Toor dal (yellow lentil): ½ cup
Red chillies: 2
Sambar powder: 1+1/2 spoon
Salt to taste
Preparation method:
Cook Toor dal in a small pressure cooker with water till it becomes a paste. Heat some oil in pan, add mustard to it along with red chillies, onions for frying. Then soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice by repeatedly adding water and rinsing the tamarind until it gets dry. Put the tamarind juice in the pan. Add sambar powder (available in market) and heat the contents for 15 minutes in the pan. Add the cooked toor dal paste over it along with 1 spoon coriander powder. The onion sambar can be served with sprinkles of coriander leaves for garnishing.