Spinach Sambhar

Spinach Sambhar

1 small cup of finely chopped spinach leaves ( as I need to make for just 2 of us)

There is no hard & fast rule how much you want to add.

Tamarind juice 1 cup

Cooked arhar/ tuvar dal 1 cup or more as needed

Salt & sambhar powder to taste

Hing/asafetida a big pinch

Fresh coriander leaves 2-3 tbsp finely chopped

Mustard seeds 1 tsp

Methi seeds ¼ tsp

Curry leaves a sprig

Oil 1 tsp

Method

1)      In a micro safe dish, I added oil & mustard seeds, kept for 90 seconds.

2)      Once it crackled, added methi, curry leaves & hing & kept for 30 seconds.

3)      Then I added finely chopped spinach, sautéed for a minute.

4)      Then added tamarind juice & ½ cup water, sambhar pdr., salt & micro high for 3 minutes.

5)      Mixed the cooked dal with 2 tsp of atta well, added to the boiled mixture, add water if it is too thick, mix well, micro high for 2 minutes, adding coriander leaves.

This goes well with hot rice. This sambhar is healthy, as it has spinach. It was quite tasty.

This can be done in the normal way on the gas, following the same procedure