Mullangi/Radish Podi potta sambar

This recipe serves two.

Ingredients:

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• Radish - 2
• curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• Tamarind juice - extracted from tamarind ball of dia,3 cm
• hing - a pinch
• jaggery - a pinch
• turmeric powder - a pinch
• Tuar dal - 100 grams
• Sambar powder - 2 heaped teaspoon(Refer to the podi section)
• Oil - 1 teaspoon
• Mustard seeds - 1 teasppon
• Urad dal,split - 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli - 1
• Tomato,chopped - 1
• Coriander leaves - 1 tablespoon,finely chopped
• Salt - to taste

Method:

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• Wash and pressure cook the tuar dal.
• Peel off the skin of radish and cut into thin round slices.
• Add water just to immerse the radish slices and cook covered with a pinch of turmeric powder.
• When is cooked,add the tamarind juice,hing,salt,sambar powder,jaggery,curry leaves and cook till the raw smell goes off.
• Add the cooked tuar dal and mix well.Allow it to boil.
• When it starts to boil,chop a tomato roughly and add to the sambar.
• When it boils,switch off .Add coriander leaves and temper with mustard seeds,urad dal and red chilli.

Serve with rice and any porial/kootu.