Ingredients:

• Spinach – 2 bunches
• Toor Dal – 1 cup
• Onion (big)- 1
• Green chillies – 2 (medium spice)
• Tamarind – 1 small ball or Tamarind paste – 1 tsp
• Sambar powder – 1 to 1.5 tsp
• Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt as per taste
• For Seasoning:
• Oil – 2 tsp
• Mustard Seeds – 1/4 tsp
• Jeera – 1/4 tsp
• Red Chillies – 1
• Hing – 1 pinch

Method:

1. Pressure cook dal separately by adding adequate water. Keep aside.
2. Wash spinach leaves and chop them.
3. Chop onions and green chillies.
4. Soak the tamarind in water for some time and squeeze the pulp (do not make thick paste).
5. Now mix all the above (except dal) adding curry leaves, turmeric powder and sambhar powder. Boil it till the spinach leaves and the onions are cooked well.
6. Once spinach and onions are cooked. Add dal and mix well.
7. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, jeera red chillies and hing.
8. After the mustard seeds splutter, add this spinach and dal mixture.
9. Serve with rice and rotis.

Recipe courtesy of Harini