to prepare sambar first cook 1 cup of toor dal in cooker for three vesseles... and little bit tamarind a siz e of lemon keep in microwave and squeeze the juice out of it... keep these both ready.
1) first cut the all vegetables in to medium pieces. 2) put all these vegetables in the dal which is already cooked . 3)now put salt,chilli powder 1 spoon, sambar powder almsot 2 spoons,turmeric 4) the juice from tamarind out this also in dal. 5)mix ervythng properly and put the cooker for 1 vessel only 1 enough 6)so that all the vegetables with tamarind jucie will cook nicely not too mashed so 1 vessel is enough 6) after that put the tadka with cumin seeds,urid dal,chana dal,curry leaves,red chilles,musturd seeds. fry 80% nicely not too dark 7) chopped cilantro in the sambar 8) put the tadka in to the sambar.... 9) pure south indian andhra sambar is ready........
a typical andhra south indian sambar will not contain tindora,beens,califlower,ttoo much of tamatoes,no beens at all............ the receipt which i am posting now is exactly andhra sambar. ,, and the sambar wil now have other pastes apart frm dal ............. dal is the most imporatant paste thats it....