Mixed Vegetable Sambhar with Sprouted Fenugreek

The Mixed Vegetable sambhar is excellent for health. The sprouted fenugreek and pumpkin is great for diabetics. This is a favourite in the house and my mom makes it often.

Ingredients

Tamarind (small)

Medium sized tomato 2

Toor Dal 1/2 cup

Sprouted fenugreek 1/2 cup

Chopped radish 1 cup

Chopped carrots 1 cup

Yellow pumpkin 1/2 cup

Spinach 1 cup

Coriander leaves

Curry leaves

Hing

Turmeric 1/2 tsp

Sambhar powder 1 tbsp

Jaggery 1 tsp

Salt

Mustard seeds

Cooking oil

For the Sambhar Powder, fry the following ingredients and dry grind.

Dhaniya 2 tbsps

Bengal gram 1 tsp

Fenugreek seeds 1/2 tsp

Red chillies 6

Grated coconut 1 tbsp

Method

1. In a heavy bottomed vessel, boil the vegetables with just enough water.

2. Boil the tomatoes with the tamarind  and salt until the mixture loses its raw smell.

3. Cool it and extract the pulp. 

4. Add the jaggery.

5. Add the pulp to the boiled vegetables.

6. Add tumeric, sambhar powder, and cooked toor dal. Mix well.

7. In a pan, add oil and splutter mustard seeds, fenugreek, 1 red chilly, powdered hing, few sprigs of curry leaves.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with steaming hot rice and pappads.

If the sambhar is thin, dissolve a tea spoon of rice flour in 1/4 cup of water and add it to the boiling sambhar.