TOMATO TIFFIN SAMBHAR without Toor Dal | SIDE DISH FOR IDLY, DOSA, CHAPPATHI & UPMA

This is one of the favourites during my college days. In our hostel, they serve this side dish for Broken Wheat Upma on Thursdays as Morning Breakfast. For night dinner, they serve us Tomato Rice with Kovaikai fry along with white rice, rasam & buttermilk. It did really tasted awesome. I never skip these varieties.

TOMATO TIFFIN SAMBHAR

INGREDIENTS:-

Medium-sized tomatoes, finely chopped - 3 nos.

Pizza Sauce - 1 tbsp

Salt - as required

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Roasted Gram dal - 1 tbsp

Black pepper - 8 nos.

Water - as required

Cooking Oil/ Gingelly Oil - 1 tbsp

FOR TAMPERING:-

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 leaflet

Finely chopped Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

METHOD:-

Heat Oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter. Then add cumin seeds, curry leaves,  asafoetida & half of the coriander leaves. Fry it.

Add tomatoes and required salt. Cover with lid and cook for 5 minutes in sim to medium flame. The water content in tomatoes oozes. 

Add pizza sauce, turmeric powder & mix well. Cover with lid and cook till the oil separates from the mixutre.

Add water to it ( I added 1.25 cups of water). Allow it to boil for 5 minutes. 

In a mixer jar, add black pepper and roasted gram dal. Make a fine powder. Add 1/4 cup of water and grind. Add this paste to Sambhar and allow it to boil till it becomes a mild thick consistency.

Tasty Tiffin sambhar without cooked dal  is ready... Garnish with the remaining coriander leaves.

Tastes better with Idly, Chappathi, Dosa, Broken Wheat Upma.

See also for
Broken Wheat Upma / Godhumai Rava Upma
Siru Thaniya Dosai / Millets Dosa