Pongal Sambhar

This sambhar tastes awesome with Venpongal.

Ingredients

To pressure cook:
Moong dhal - 1 (handful)
Big onion - 1/2 (medium sized) or equivalent small onions
Tomato - 1
Brinjal / Eggplant - 2 (medium sized)
Green chillies - 2
Turmeric - 1/4 sp

To dry roast & blend:
Fenugreek seeds (venthayam) - 1/4 sp
Coconut (cut into small pieces) - 3 sp
Hing - 1/4 sp
Coriander powder - 3/4 sp

Seasoning:
Oil - 3 sp
Mustard - 1/4 sp
Urad dhal - 1/4 sp
Red chilli - 1
Curry leaves - 10 Nos.

Salt - To taste
Coriander leaves - For garnishing

Method

1. Pressure cook the above mentioned ingredients and mash them with a "mathu" or the back of  a ladle.
2. Add the roasted & blend ingredients, with necessary water for the required final consistency.
3. Add required salt.
4. Do the seasoning and add to the pressure cooker.
5. Let this boil for about 10 min in a medium heat or until required consistency is reached.
6. Garnish with coriander leaves.
7. Serve with hot venpongal.

Note

1. This sambhar may appear tasteless during preparing. But when added to venpongal..... it tastes awesome... yummy.
2. This goes well only with venpongal and not with any other tiffin varieties like idli / dosa.