Small Onion Sambhar/ Kutti Vengaya sambhar

As i come form a Traditional brahmin house hold Onions and garlic are not added in the Traditional receipies. I have tasted this first in hotel. As kids when ever we used to pack idlies from hotel as take away they used to give this sambhar.
Those times it was not that popular going to hotels and having breakfast. But the best part is we used to buy 6 idlies and used to get a big bowl of sambhar. After that slowly it got added in our sunday lunch menu, because of us Mom used to make it every sunday. It is a very tasty sambhar.Lets see how to make it...

Ingredients:-

Peeled Small Onions

Chillies - 2

Oil-2 tsp

Tamarind-Small Lemon sized

Sambhar Powder:- 3 tsp

Thuar  Dal - 1/2 cup

Salt- as required

Turmeric- pinch

Coriander leaves

Curry leaves

Seasoning:-

Mustard-1tsp

Small Red Chillies -2

Method:-

1.Pressure cook Dal in enough water with turmeric powder. Allow to cool, and mash well.

2. Soak tamarind in  hot water for half an hour and squeeze out extract. Strain well.

3. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan add onions and chillies and fry it a little bit.

4. Add tamarind extract,salt and bring it to boil, add sambhar powder.

5. Finally add mashed Dal to it and cook till it becomes a little thick.

6. Fry seasoning in oil and mix with sambhar.

7.Garnish with coriander leaves,curry leaves and serve hot with cooked rice,or Idly or dosa or upma. 

 Variations:- You can make the sambhar with fried  Brinjal,ladies finger or Big onions,Capcicum.

                                                                  or

 Cooked- Drumstick,Carrot,Radish, Yellow pumpkin, White pumpkin, Bottle gourd, Vegetable marrow etc.

You can add Fresh ground cocounut and a piece of jaggery to sambhar before switching of the stove  to give it a hotel made sambhar taste.