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Cooking Time
Preparation Time : 10
Cook Time : 15
Total Time : 25
Ingredients
Serves 3
1/2 Cup Moong dal
1 medium bottle gourd diced
1 small lemon sized tamarind
1 tbsp salt or as per taste
1 tbsp oil
1-2 cups water
For tempering : 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
2 dry red whole chili
1 sprig Curry leaves
1 green chilly slit
1 small piece ginger chopped
2 garlic glove chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 small pinch asafodita
Directions
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.
Akum Raj Jamir
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