HOTCHULHA

Ingredients:

• Toor Dal – 1 Cup
• Onion – 1/2 big – cut into small pieces
• Tomato – 1 big cut into big pieces
• Shallots – 10 peeled
• Dosakaya – 1/4 – Cut into big pieces
• Drumsticks – 8 pieces
• Turmeric Powder – 1/2 Tea Spoon
• Red Chilly powder – 1 Table Spoon
• Curry Leaves – 12
• hing – Large Pinch
• Tadka Seeds – 1 Tea Spoon
• Dry Red Chilly – 4 whole
• Coriander Leaves – Handful
• Tamarind – Small lemon size – Soak it in 2 cups of water
• Home made sambar powder – 3 Table Spoons

Method:

1. Pressure cook the Tood Dal with 2 cups of water and keep it aside. Once it is cooled, soften Toor Dal little bit(Not so much as paste)
2. Take the juice of Soaking Tamarind and keep it aside.
3. Now in a pan, pour 4 table spoons of oil and then the tadka seeds, hing, curry leaves, dry red chillies and saute for one minute and put the veggies, turmeric powder, Chilly Powder, salt and 2 Glass of water and let it cook for 20 minutes.
4. Once you think the Veggies are tender, pour the Toor Dal & Tamarind Juice.
5. In a 1/4 cup of water mix the home made sambar powder and mix it well.
6. Pour this mix in the pan.
7. Let it cook until it is thick and bubbly.
8. Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Serve this with Idly or Plain white rice.