Sorakkai Paruppu ( Bottle Gourd With Dal)
South Indian style bottle gourd with dal is a very simple yet comforting dish. This dish goes well with hot steam rice or any Indian bread. Taste amazing with a drizzle of ghee over it.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Moong Dal
- 1 Bottle Gourd or lauki lauki medium size cubed
- 1 Tamarind or lemon lemon sized
- 1-2 tsp Salt or as per taste
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 2 cup Water or as required
- 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds or tempering for tempering
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 2 Red Chillies whole
- 4 leaves Curry
- 1 Green Chillies slit
- a piece Ginger finely chopped
- 2 Garlic chopped
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 pinch Asafoetida
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Instructions
- Soak the tamarind in little water in a small bowl for sometime and extract the juice out of it.
- Add the dal, bottle gourd, water, salt to taste in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for about 3 whistles. Let the pressure release by itself and coarsely mash the dal and bottle gourd with the back If the laddle.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds and red chillies a let it crackle.
- Add the curry leaves, green chillies, ginger, garlic and saute for about 2 mins.
- Add the turmeric powder and asafoetida and tamarind juice and cook for a min or two.
- Add this tempering to the dal bottle gourd mixture, give a good stir and take off the heat.
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