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Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Take with: Idli, Dosa, Rice, Chapathi | Type : Sambar, Gravy, kulambu, curry, masala.

Ingredients

• Chow chow -1 [wash & peel the skin, cut into ½ inch cubes]
• Toor dal – ¼ cup [boiled]
• Tamarind water – 2 tbsp
• Sambar onion [shallots] – 5
• Garlic– 3
• Dry red chilli – 1
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – ½ tbsp
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Coriander powder – ½ tbsp
• Red chilli powder – ½ tsp
• Fenu greek powder– 1 tbsp [dry roast fenu greek seeds & freshly grind]
• Jaggery – 1 tbsp [grated]
• Asafetida a pinch
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

For roasting and grinding ingredients

• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – ½ tbsp
• Coriander seeds – ½ tbsp
• Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Coconut – 2 tbsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Heat oil in a pan then roast above ingredients and grind to fine paste with ¼ cup of water

Method

• Heat oil in pan then add mustard seeds. Once it’s spluttered then add Bengal gram and onion sauté till soft. Then add freshly ground fenugreek powder mix well.
• Add dry red chilli and curry leaves sauté gently.
• Add chopped chow chow, coriander, red chilli and turmeric powder mix well & sauté for 2 min then add water cook till soft.
• Add freshly ground paste mix well. Add water if required. Then add boiled tool dal mix well. Then add tamarind water mix well.
• When bubbles come out then add jaggery and salt mix well then cut off heat. Serve hot with rice, idli, dosa.

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Chow chow - 1

Peel off the skin

Remove seeds, cut into cubes

Wash toor dal

Add 4 cups of water

Add onion

Add garlic

Add tomato

Add chow chow

Add turmeric powder

Add red chilli powder

Add asafoetida

Add 1 tbsp sesame oil

Cover lid pressure cook for 4 whistles

After 3 whistles, pressure cooked dal and chow chow ready, keep it aside

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan, add cumin, coriander, chana dal, urad dal, coconut, dry red chilli & peppercorns

Add all roasted ingredients & grind to fine paste

Samabr paste ready

For tempering:- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan, add 1 tbsp mustard seeds, let it splutter

Add chana dal, urad dal, asafoetida, curry leaves

Add fenugreek powder

Add cooked toor dal chow chow mixture

Mix well

Add tamarind puree/water

Add jaggery

add salt

Add coriander leaves

Now its ready , cut off heat

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