Venthaya/Vattha Kozhambu (Iyengar style)

Ingredients-

• Brinjal or ( Small onions, pealed manathakkali sundakai Kotovranga Brinjal Dry Fried Pappad onion and garlic together Drumstick) - 1 cup
• Sambar powder- 2 tsp
• Tamarind lemon size (put it in a cup of water and boil it for about a minute and extract the juice)
• Gingerly oil- 4-5 tsp
• Turmeric powder-1/4Th tsp
• Asafodita- a pinch
• Mustard-1/4 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
• chana daal- 1/4 Th tsp
• toor daal- 1/4Th tsp
• urad Daal- 1/4Th tsp
• curry leafs- 5-6
• Dry red chillies- 2-3 nos

Procedure

1. Heat the oil in medium flame in a pan
2. Add the mustered seeds to it .
3. After the seeds splatter add the chana daal and toor daal
4. add the urad dal and mustered seeds a while later and stir until the daals turn golden brown
5. Add the red chilies,asafotida and curry leafs
6. After the leafs splatter add the vegetable and stir fry for a minute or 2 (Add the pappad pieces and stir until they puff up. )
7. Add turmeric powder and sambar powder and stir
8. Immediately add the tamarind extract (add water when necessary)
9. Add salt and cook for 8-10 minutes

Serve Hot with rice.
*If the sambar becomes too sour add a small piece of jaggery

Source-straight from my mom's kitchen