This is the story of sambar transforming into puli kootu...
I started searching recipes on the internet & bumped on cabbage sambar, having no proper provisions nor groceries at teh apartment I thought of making cabbage sambar which required nothing but oil, tamaind, cabbage, dal, etc. Hoping to follow the basic template I boiled cabbage & dal in the same cooker vessel owing to lack of utensils, it was also due the bare fact that they both gotta mix somewhere, so why not now ;)
Only during boiling it I found that the cabbage was too much that cooker couldnt take it. So plan B, enough boiling without spices, lets add the rest of the ingredients & continue boiling. All went well until I foudn that the tamarid extract had almost dried out & there was not much liquid left to call the yield SAMBAR, it was a puli (tamamrind) kootu, but without much of the major constituents :P So what it did taste edible & palatable... So man what's cooking????
