Paasipparuppu Sambar ( Moong Dhal Sambar )

Ingredients:

• Shallots / Pearl onions - 15 nos.
• Onion - 1/2 chopped ( Optional ).
• Tomato - 1/2 chopped.
• Cilantro - as required to garnish
• Moong Dhal - 3/4 cup
• Turmeric powder - pinch
• Hing - pinch
• Salt - As required
• Sambar podi - 1 tsp ( Optional ).
  

For Seasoning:

• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp.
• Urud Dhal - 1/2 tsp.
• Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 tsp.
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp.
  

Method:

1. Take a pan, drop 1 tsp of oil.
2. After oil gets heated up, put mustard seeds. After they splutter, add urud dhal, kadalai paruppu, cumin seeds.
3. When they turn golden brown, then put hing, turmeric powder,shallots, onion and saute them.
4. When the onion and shallots turn golden brown then put tomatoes and saute them.
5. Put salt as required and pour water, bring them to boil.
6. Then add the cooked moong dhal into the mixture and boil for some more minutes.
7. After it is done, garnish the sambar with cilantro and the sambar is ready to serve.
8. This Sambar will go well with Pongal, Dosa, Idli.

Another Version of this sambar:

You can replace the moong dhal with toor dhal and can add 1 1/2 tsp of sambar powder and tamarind water and follow the same procedure to make another version which will also go well with Pongal, Dosa and idli.