SWEET PUMPKIN(PARANGIKAI) SAMBAR

ITEMS REQUIRED:

Sweet pumpkin – faily big piece

Tomato – 1 or 2

Capsicum – 1 big

Green chilly – 1

Toor dal – 1 cup

Tamarind – small lemon size

Sambar powder – 1 ½ spoons

Salt – as required

Hing – small pinch

Curry leaf – 1 strip

For tempering:

Gingelly oil – 2 tbsp

Mustard-little

Methi seeds-little

METHOD:

• Cook toor dal very well in a pressure cooker.
• Soak tamarind and extract juice. 
• Wash and cut sweet pumpkin, capsicum, tomatoes, green chilly and transfer to a thick bottomed vessel.
• Add tamarind water, sambar powder, salt, hing, curry leaves and allow to boil well for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring in between.
• Once done, mash cooked toor dal well , add sufficient water and pour the mixture to boiled contents and don’t allow to boil for more than one or two minutes after that.
• Temper with mustard and methi seeds in gingelly oil (if gingelly oil is not available, use your usual cooking oil).
• Tasty sweet pumpkin sambar is ready.