Ingredients:
Toor dhal - 1 cup
Red chillies - 2 or 3
Asafoetida - small piece
Grated coconut - 3 spoons
Tamarind - small piece
Coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Soak Toor dhal in water for 45 minutes, grind it with chillies and asafoetida into a coarse semi-solid batter.
2. Mix it with grated coconut, chopped coriander leaves and salt.
3. Soak tamarind in water, strain well and boil this solution with salt.
4. Make small balls out of the dhal batter and put a few balls in the boiling tamarind water.
5. When the dhal balls are fully cooked, they rise up to the surface.
6. Remove those balls and add the remaining balls for cooking.

Serve hot with Plain rice.

Note: Sambar powder need not be added to this.