Sambhar Masala

Ingredients:
Any combination of vegetables:
-guard
-beans
-carrot
-pumpkin
-eggplant
-etc.
Spices:
-Salt
-cumin seeds
-methi seeds
-mustard seeds
-big dry red chillies
-turmeric powder
-coriander powder
-sambhar powder
-chilli powder
Other:
-toor or Arhar daal
-water
-vegetable or corn oil
-onion
-tomatoes

Preparation:
1) cut the selected vegetables, onion and tomatoes in small pieces.
2) put the toor daal with cumin seeds, salt, turmeric pwder and water to cook in cooker. Give lot of whistles in order to over cook /or totally mashed daal.
3) in another vessle, put oil, mustard seeds, methi seeds, big dry red chillies and fry onion.
4) when onion is light brown, add tomatoes and make puree kind of it.
5) put the spices- salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and sambhar powder.
6) put all the vegetables and mix it well.
7) put water and let it cook with closed lid for 20 minutes. Or these can be cooked in cooker after 3-4 whistles
8) when the vegetables are cooked, open the lid. There should be good amount of water as Sambhar should not be very thick.
9) remove the cooker lid of daal and mash it with big spoon.
10) add cooked daal in vegetable vessle and let it simmer in low flame or heat.
11) add more spices if you find spices less or something.