RECIPE FOR WORKING WOMEN- SAMBAR PULP

Required items:

For tamarind paste:

Tamarind- ½ kg
Salt- 50 gms or as required
Turmeric powder-2 tb.sp

For grinding:
Coriander seeds- 150 gms
Bengal gram- 100 gms
Red chillies- 50 gms
Asafoetida powder-2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds- 1 tbsp

For seasoning:
Mustard seeds- 6 tsp
Red chillies- 5
Fenugreek seeds- ½ tbsp
Oil- ½ cup

Preparation method:
Soak the tamarind in warm water and get the extract by adding little water. Tamarind pulp should be thick.
Fry the above mentioned ingredients for grinding by adding little oil till golden brown. Powder it in the mixer.
Heat a heavy bottomed kadai and add the tamarind pulp,salt and turmeric powder. Bring it to boil till the paste becomes thick. Remove it from fire.
Add the powdered ingredients to it. Mix it well.
Finally heat the oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds, chillies, fenugreek seeds, curry leaves to it. When it splutters add it to the above mixture.

Transfer this content to a clean bottle and keep refrigerated.
You can keep it for a month.

SAMBAR PULP IS READY.

HOW TO USE IT?
Boil the tur dal and required vegetable in the pressure cooker.
Take 5 tsps of sambar pulp and mix with little hot water. Mix the dal, sambar pulp & veg in required hot water.your sambar is ready now.

This will be useful for working ladies & bachelors. You can prepare this paste when you are free and can use it whenever you need it. try it out.