Obbattu Saaru

Ingredients

• Toor dhal - 3 cups
• water - 15 cups atleast 
• Curry leaves - 1bunch
• Tamarind juice of lemon size tamarind
• Hing - 2pinch (optional)
• oil to temper
• mustard to temper

Grind to paste

• Garlic cloves peeled - 1 cup
• Jeera - 4 tsp
• pepper - 1 tsp
• Grated coconut - 2tbsp
• Boiled dhal - 3tsp 
• coriander leaves 
• Chilli powder - 1 tbsp

Fry garlic , Jeera, pepper in little oil and add coconut and mix .Then add boiled dhal, coriander leaves and chilli powder and grind to smooth paste.Use only boiled toor dhal water

Method

• Take a big vessel and let the boil the water.
• Once water starts boiling add toor dhal.Cook till dhal is cooked.Strain the water and use dhal to make obbattu.
• To the dhal water add fresh curry leaves and keep it aside.
• Mix the grinded paste to the dhal water and also add tamarind juice, salt to it.
• Take another vessel add 2 tsp oil, add mustard, hing and curry leaves.Then add above mixture of the dhal water and cook for 15-20 min (on a medium flame)

Tip : the more you keep boiling the sambar, the sambhar tastes very very tasty.