Ingredients

• Small Onions - 20
• Tomato - 2
• green chillies - 8 to 10
• Toor Dal - 1/2 cup
• Sambar powder - 2 tsps
• Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Tamarind extract - 3 spoons
• Turmeric - a pinch
• Curry leaves and coriander leaves -few sprigs
• 4 tbsp - Oil
• salt to taste
• For seasoning:
• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 spoon
• urad dal - 1 tsp
• Bengal gram dal - 1 tsp| | 5 - Dry red chillies

How to Make Small Onion Sambar

• Pressure cook dal with enough water. Keep aside.
• Heat oil in pan. Add seasonings, fry for a while. Add turmeric, sambhar powder, red chilli powder saute for a while.
• Add small onions, green chillies, curry leaves, diced tomatoes, tamarind pulp and 1/2 cup water. Allow to boil till onions are cooked.
• Mash the cooked dal. Add to the boiling sambar. Add enough water to bring it to sambhar consistency.
• Add chopped coriander on top.
• Also add 1/2 tsp of gingili oil to make it tastier.