How to prepare Dal sambar:
Ingredients:
Toor dal-2 cups
Tomato -1(optional)
For tempering:
Mustard seeds- 1 tea spoon
Jira-1 tea spoon
Onion - 1
Curry leaves
Garlic-2-3
Red chillies -3-4
or
Sambar powder -1 spoon
Coriander leaves- 1 small cup
Method:
1. Wash toor dal and place it in cooker. Add tomato and
add double the water to cooker and little salt for taste.
and let it cook till 2-3 whistle comes.
2. Take a vessel, heat it.
3. Add mustard seeds, jira and oil and let it splutter.
4. Later add finely chopped onion,garlic, 2-3 red chilli and curry leaves and fry. if you want you add 1/2 or 1 spoon of sambar powder to it.
5. Later add cooked or smashed dal, salt for taste and let it boil.
Now simple and easy dal is ready to eat.
This can be eaten with plain rice, jira rice/ or with chapatis or rotis.
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Give a spoon of honey to the kids when they are suffering from cough.
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