1. Wash and cut okra into small cubes and boil it in pressure cooker or oven adding a little salt.
2. Wash and keep red gram dal in pressure cooker adding 3 cups of water, little turmeric powder, asafoetida and a drop of oil. Boil it for some 20 minutes.
3. Meantime soak tamarind in hot water and make a paste after removing dust particles.
4. Chopp onion after peeling off the skin, chopp tomatoes and keep it aside.
5. Cut green chillies into two lengthwise and keep other ingredients ready.
6. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black gram dal, red chillies, green chillies, curry leaves, then add chopped onions, tomatoes, capsicum and fry them well.
7. Add red chilly powder, corriander powder, turmeric powder, sambar powder and add the boiled vegetable.
8. Make tamarind paste and mix well. Let it boil for some 10 minutes.
9. Meantime grind coconut, cuminseeds, 2 pearl onions and curry leaves to a paste.
10. Now add boiled dal to the mixture which is boiling.
11. Finally add the coconut paste, a tbsp of ghee, corriander leaves and mix them well and let it boil till sambar becomes thick.
12. Hot, tasty okra sambar is ready and delicious to be served.

This recipe is called Vendakkai sambar in Tamil.

Courtesy: http://tamilveg.blogspot.com/