A popular dish of south India is a tomato and vegetable curry known as sambhar. This is served with rice, idli or dosa. Given here is the sambhar recipe:

The ingredients:
2 Cups of toor dal
4 red chilles
4 green chilles
¼ teaspoon methi
1 teaspoon sambhar masala powder
A pinch of hing
Salt to taste
Oil
2 teaspoons mustard
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
¼ teaspoon tamarind paste
Diced vegetables like drumstick, green pepper, brinjal and okra
2 ½ cups of water

Take a hollow cooking utensil and pour the water into it, let it come to a boil. Then add the turmeric powder and toor dal. Let the mixture boil and then separate the water from the dal and keep them aside. Pour the turmeric toor dal water into a hollow cooking dish and to this add the vegetables and salt. After this is cooked add in the turmeric paste. Then take a cooking pan, heat some oil and cook the methi, mustard, chillies, hing, turmeric powder and sambhar masala powder, together. Add this to the vegetables and then add the toor dal and let the entire mixture cook for about ten minutes.