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Ingredients ( Seasoning | For Sambar )
Ingredients for seasoning
Oil - 2tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Curry leaf - 10 leaves
Coriander leaves - 3 springs
Ingredients for sambar
Toor dal - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Tamarind - a lime sized bal
Onion chopped - 1 cup
Tomato chopped - 1 cup
Sambar powder - 2 tsp
Green chilli split in two - 2 nos
Garlic crushed- 2 clove
Poosanikai - 1/4th (peel and cut into pieces)
Salt - 1.5 tsp
Water - 6-7 cups
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Preparation Method
Wash toor dhal, add 2 cups of water and turmeric powder. Pressure cook until 3 whistle.
soak tamarind in 1 cup of water and extract the juice filtering the skin. Keep aside.
Heat 4 cups of water in a deep pan, when it comes to boil add chopped onion, tomato, green chilli, garlic, poosanikai, sambar powder and salt. cover it up and let it cook for 10 min in medium flame. Now add tamarind juice, when it boils cover up and cook for 5 min. Smash the cooked dhal and add it to the boiling sambar. Cook uncovered for 5 min.
Heat oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds when it done popped switch off the flame, add asafoetida powder curry leaf and coriander leaf. Pour it on top of the cooked sambar. Stir well and serve.
Other names/spelling variations: Poosanikkai sambar, Pumpkin sambar, sambhar.
Poosanikkai is Pumpkin in Tamil language.
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