White Pumpkin Methi Sambar

Ingredients:

• White pumpkin - 2 cups
• Methi leaves - 1/4 cup
• Tamarind - small gooseberry size
• Toor dal - 1/4 cup plus 1 tblspn
• Sambar powder - 2 tspn
• Methi seeds - 1/4 tspn ( optional )
• Salt - to taste

For seasonings:

• Oil - 1 tspn
• Mustard - 3/4 tspn
• Dry red chilli - 1 no
• Asafoetida powder - a pinch
• Curry leaves - few nos

Method:

• Wash peel the skin take out the seeds from the white pumpkin and chop in to little bit big pieces
• Wash and chop the methi leaves
• Soak the tamarind in warm water, cook the toor dal along with methi seeds and keep aside
• In a cooking vessel take tamarind juice, white pumpkin, methi leaves, salt , add required water and cook it
• After 2 mins add sambar powder and cook till the pumpkin becomes transparent and tender at this stage add the dal and mix it well
• Keep in low flame for 2 mins and switch off the stove
• Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard after it pops out add red chilli, curry leaves and asafoetida powder and switch off the stove and pour this on to the sambar
• Serve the healthy, tasty white pumpkin methi sambar along with plain rice 

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