IdliSambar Recipe -- Recipe of Tiffin Sambar

Idli sambar is a great combo. Idli goes only with sambar and coconut chutney. A typical South Indian breakfast. It won't go well with rice and is completely different from the rice one. Though I love both of them. Whenever I make idli for breakfast I prefer to make sambar.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Recipe Category: Soups
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Serves: 5 people

Ingredients:

• Pigeon Peas/Toor Dal/Kandi Pappu - 1/2 cup or 2 laddles
• Onion - 1 small
• Tomato -1 small
• Tamarind - pebble sized
• Salt - to taste
• Sambar Masala - 1/2 cup 
• Jaggery - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp

For Tempering:

• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
• Cumin Seeds -1 tsp
• Red Chillies - 2
• Curry Leaves - 5 to 7

For Sambar Masala:

Ingredients:

• Coriander Seeds - 1 tbsp
• Bengal Gram/Chana Dal - 1/2 tbsp
• Blacak Gram/Urad Dal - 1/2 tbsp
• Til - 1 tsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
• Fenugreek Seeds - 1 tsp
• Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp
• Garlic Cloves - 5 to 7
• Red Chillies - 4 
• Asafoetida - 1 tsp

Procedure for sambar masala:

1. Heat 1 tsp of oil in a kadai. Roast all the above ingredients till the dals turn into light brown shade or till the aroma of it come out.
2. Allow it cool and grind it to a fine paste. 

Procedure for sambar:

1. Pressure cook pigeon peas for three whistles. 
2. Slice onions and tomatoes vertically.
3. Soak jaggery and tamarind in water separately.
4. Heat oil in a thick bottomed vessel, add oil and add all the ingredients under 'For Tempering'. 
5. Once they start spluttering add onions and tomatoes. 
6. Add water, salt and turmeric powder. Allow them to cook. 
7. Once they are done, squeeze the juice out of soaked tamarind and add it. 
8. Allow this to boil for five minutes. Add cooked dal. 
9. Add sambar masala and jaggery water in it. Add ghee also and mix well and allow it to boil to maximum point. 
10. Serve idli sambar with hot idli.