- Pressure cook dhal with one and a half cups of water for ten minutes.
- When cold mash well. Soak tamarind in one cup of water, for five minutes, squeeze well and strain out juice. Cook vegetables in one and a half cups of water.
- When three-quarter cooked add slit green chillies, salt and sugar. Add tamarind water and simmer till raw smell disappears.
- Add mashed dhal, rasam powder and curry leaves. Simmer till thick, add coriander leaves.
- Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, black gram dhal and red chilli. When mustard seeds splutter, add hing powder and pour the seasoning over the sambar.
- Serve sambar hot with rice and chips.