This is jackfruit season, and it is easy to get tender jackfruit in the market. Using fresh tender jackfruit, drumstick, small onions, and carrots you can prepare delicious sambar and have with either the rice of roti or with idlis. You can dip vada in this sambar! This recipe does not need coconut and easy to prepare and by consuming this mixed vegetable sambar you will get most of your fibers and protein that is required for your daily consumption.

Time for cooking – half an hour.

Ingredients:

1. Toor dal – ½ cup toor dal
2. Turmeric powder – 1tsp
3. Tender jackfruit bite size pieces – 2 cups
4. Small onions – 1 cup
5. Tomato – 1 chopped
6. Carrot pieces- 1 cup
7. Drumstick 2-inch pices-1 medium size drumstick
8. Green chilies – 1
9. Tamarind pulp – 1 Tbsp
10. Sambar powder – 2 Tbsp (adjust according to your need of spice level)
11. Salt – for taste
12. For seasoning – few curry leaves, ½ tsp mustard, one red chili, ¼ tsp fenugreek, pinch asafetida

Preparation:

1. Rinse toor dal well and pressure cook with two cups water, turmeric, and a pinch of salt for 3-4 whistles until soft. Mash it and set it aside.
2. To a pressure cooker add chopped jackfruit, tomato, carrots, and green chilies. Add water, salt, and cook (3 whistles should be enough).
3. On medium heat, place sambar vessel and add a tsp of oil. Add small onions and drumsticks and fry for 2-3 minutes. Now add tamarind pulp. Let both onion and drumstick cook in the tamarind water.
4. To tamarind pulp now add sambar powder and continue boiling for another 2-3 minutes.
5. Now add cooked vegetables and smashed dal. Mix well and continue boiling. Adjust the salt according to your taste.
6. Finally, prepare seasoning – to heated cooking oil, add curry leaves, mustard, red chili, and asafetida.
7. Serve hot sambar with rice or chapathi or idli.

**You can cook drumsticks and onion along with jackfruit. The reason to cook them separately is to avoid smashing both these vegetables.