Sorakkai Paruppu ( Bottle Gourd With Dal)
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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
- Moong dal - ½ cup
- Bottle gourd/ lauki - 1 medium size cubed
- Tamarind - 1 small lemon sized
- Salt
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Water - 1½- 2 cups or as required
- For Tempering: Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
- Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
- Red chillies - 2 whole
- Curry leaves - 4-5
- Green chillies - 1-2 slit
- Ginger - a small piece finely chopped
- Garlic - 2 chopped
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Asafoetida - 1 pinch
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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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