7 kari kuzhambu / Mixed Vegetable Sambhar

This kuzhambu/Sambhar is made with combination of 5 or 7 winter vegetables along with Thiruvadirai kali on Thiruvadirai / Arudra darisanam . These are the vegetables used you can chose any vegetables as per your wish .

            Sweet potato, Plantain, Yam, Red Pumpkin, Broad beans/Avarakkai, Taro/Sepakizhangu, Mochai/Field beans . 

Ingredients needed : 

• Mixed Vegetables
• Cooked Toor dhal - 1 cup
• Tamarind juice 
• Salt 
• Oil
• Corainder leaves - to garnish
• Sambhar powder - Check the recp. below

To tempering : 

• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp.
• Urid dhal - 1/2 tsp.
• Methi seeds - 1/4 tsp.
• Curry leaves - 1 string
• Hing powder - 1/2 tsp.

To grind : 

• Dried red chili - 3 or 4 
• Dhaniya 
• Kadala paruppu 
• Whole Urad dhal
• Toor dhal 
• Turmeric powder
• Grated coconut

Dry fry all these ingredients under "To grind " and grind it by adding little water into a paste. 

Method:

           Clean and chop all the require vegetables and keep it ready . Soak Tamarind in water and extract juice and set aside . Pressure cook toor dhal . 

heat a kadai add oil + mustard seeds + urid dhal + methi seeds + curry leaves add vegetables + hing powder + salt and cook it for few minutes and then add the tamarind juice and allow it to boil well once done add the grinded paste and cook for few more minutes finally add the cooked dhal and cook till done . Switch off the flame and finally add coriander leaves . 

Goes well with kali . Check the recipe here

Thiruvadirai kali + Kuzhambu :

http://kaviskitchen.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/350th-post-thiruvadirai-kali-gayathris.html