Sorakkai Paruppu / Bottle Gourd Dal

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Sorakkai Paruppu / Bottle Gourd Dal

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :10 Min

Cook Time : 15 Min

Total Time : 25 Min

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.