1. Wash and keep dal in pressure cooker after adding a pinch of asafoetida, turmeric powder and 1 tea spoon oil.
2. Pour 2 cups of water and keep for 20 minutes.
3. Once it is boiled keep it aside.
4. Wash and cut brinjals, drumsticks and mango.
5. Boil and keep aside.
6. Peel off the skin from onions, chop it and chop tomatoes and keep ready.
7. Soak tamarind in hot water, filter all dust particles and keep it aside.
8. Prepare sambar powder, grind grated coconut, pearl onion, curry leaves and garlic and make it to a paste.
9. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black gram dal, fenugreek, add curry leaves, green chillies, red chillies and fry them.
10. Now add pearl onions and fry them well.
11. Add tomatoes and a little salt and fry them well.
12. Now add all the vegetables and let it boil for some 5 minutes.
13. Now add tamarind paste and mix them well.
14. Once it starts boiling add sambar powder, chilly powder, coriander powder and the coconut paste.
15. Finally add smashed dal and ghee and allow it to cook for some 15 minutes.
16. Garnish with coriander leaves.
17. Hot sambar is delicious and ready to be served.
18. It can be served with white rice.
19. It is also called araithu vitta sambar.

This recipe is called Pachai Parupu Sambar in Tamil.

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