Butter Milk Sambar

This is a Tamil recipe.  I got this from TV.  I made it twice till now. It was good to eat with rice. This is a combination of proteins (from dals), vitamins and minerals (from vegetables),  so this is very healthy food. It is very fast to make. Here I use only bottle guard, you can also use combination of vegetables like cucumber, carrot, aloo, bhendi etc. I hope you like it too........Happy cooking.....

Ingredients:

Fresh  Curd - 1 cup

Onion,Chopped - 1

Tomato ,Chopped - 1

Green Chilli - 1

Bottle Guard, Copped - 1/2 cup

Tamarind pulp - 2 tbsp

Sugar/Jaggery - 2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Coriander leaves - few

Salt to taste

Grind together:

Toor dal - 2tbsp

Chana dal - 1/2 tbsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tbsp

Dried red chilli - 1

Coriander seeds - 2 tsp

Jeera - 1 tsp

Fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp

Grated coconut - 1 tbsp

For tempering:

Oil - 2 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Asafoetida - 1 pinch

Method of preparation:

1. First Dry roast all the ingredients (under grind together ) one by one except coconut  and let them cool for some time.
2. Grind all the roasted ingredients with grated coconut to make fine paste by adding little water. Keep it aside.
3. Beat the fresh curd without lumps and keep it aside. 
4. Heat oil in a pan,  add Chopped onions, Green chilli and tomato slices and saute until it turns into soft.
5. Add bottle-gourd pieces and some water and cover and cook until it cooks soft.
6. Add turmeric powder and above prepared dal paste and mix well.
7. Add Tamarind pulp, sugar, salt and add fresh beaten curd and let it boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
8. Finally add Coriander leaves and remove from heat.
9. Heat oil in another pan,  add mustard seeds, asafoetida, cumin seeds and Curry leaves when mustard seeds splutters, add to the sambar. 
10. You can adjust salt  and sweet according to your taste. 
11. Now yummy and tasty butter milk sambar is ready to eat with steamed rice .