Vengaya Sambhar (Pearl Onion Sambhar )

Vengaya Sambar

Ingredients

1. Perl onion 1 cup, 
2. tamarind juice 2 cups
3. Sambhar powder - 2 tea spoons
4. boiled Toor dhal half cup 
5. channa dhal - 1 table sppon
6. Grated coconut 3 table spoon
7. asafoedita
8. Olive oil or sesame oil 2 tea spoons
9. Green Chili 2 
10. Curry Leaves
11. Mustard seeds- 1 tea spoon
12. Methi seeds 2 tea spoons
13. Salt - depending on taste or 1 tea spoon
14. cilantro 1/4 cup

Preparation

1. Clean the onion and keep it aside

1. Cut Green Chilli Lengthwise 
2. Soak Tamarind in warm water and make tamarind juice. you can use tamarind paste to get 2 cups of tamarind juice
3. Boil Toor dhal and keep it ready

1. In a pan put channa dhal fry till its golden brown and put coconut and fry for 30 seconds

1. grind and keep it aside

Cooking

in a 2 quart sauce pan put 2 tea spoons of olive oil and bring to medium heat
put Mustard seeds, wait till mustard seeds splutter and put methi seeds,curry leaves and Green Chilli

put onions and wait till its softened or 2 mins

pour tamarind juice salt and pinch of asafoedita

wait till the tamarind juice boils
Put 2 tea spoon full of sambhar powder wait for 3 mins ( if you don't have sambhar powder you have to make sambhar powder i have given the recipe for sambhar powder below )

after 3 mins put boiled toor dhal wait for 2 mins
put the Channa dhal , coconut mixture wait for 2 mins

garnish with cilantro leaves
if you don't have sambhar powder ready make the sambhar powder as given below

Channa Dhal - 4 tea spoons
Coriander seeds - 5 tea spoons
Red chilli  lengthy variety - 4

fry the contents in pan till it is golden brown and grind it to powder
this you can use it instead of the sambhar powder mentioned above