Thursday, March 17

Bottle gourd and Channa Dal Curry

Bottle gourd is 96.1% water, so is light on the stomach and aids digestion. A 100 gm serving of lauki contains just twelve calories and is ideal if you are watching your weight. Bottle gourd juice is an excellent remedy for excessive thirst caused by diarrhea, over consumption of fatty or fried foods, and diabetes. Drink a glass of this juice with a little salt added to it to treat this condition....


Ingredient's
1 medium size bottle gourd, clean and chopped in to small pieces
75gram of channa dal
2 onion, 3 green chillies, 3 tomato's, finely chopped
1tsp red chilly powder, 1tsp coriander powder, 1tsp garam masala, 1tsp turmeric
1tsp ginger garlic paste
2cup of water


For Tempering
1/2tsp cumin seeds
4 dry red chillies
4 garlic cloves
few curry leaves
Oil and Salt as per taste




Cooking Method
In a pressure cooker add channa dal, bottle gourd, turmeric, salt and water, close the lid and boil for atleast 4 to 5 whistle. Then in a deep frying pan add oil, when the oil is hot, add the cumin seeds, dry chillies, cloves and curry leaves, when they splutter, add chopped onion and green chillies, fry to golden brown, then add the masala and ginger garlic paste with little water, fry for 7 to 8 minutes, now add the chopped tomato's and cook till soften. Now add the boiled channa dal and bottle gourd, salt and water if needed, Cook for another 8 to 10 minutes.
Garnish with Coriander leaves
Serve hot with Roti's or Rice.


27 comments:

Unknown said...

Tempting Curry

Treat and Trick said...

Healthy and yummy! Looks inviting...

Zareena said...

Hmm.. Yummy and delicious curry for chapathis. Loved your version.

Unknown said...

Nice combination curry...looks very tempting

Sarah Naveen said...

Love this combo..looks so yumm!!

Jayanthy Kumaran said...

wow..love d hot color...awesome recipe..
Tasty appetite

Suja Manoj said...

Looks awesome,delicious curry with tempting color.

Swathi said...

Bottle gourd and chanadal curry looks delicious

Lifewithspices said...

Very tempting hot colorful curry..

Sravs said...

Delicious Combo and very tempting !!!

Vimitha Durai said...

A nice and colorful curry for chapathis...

Hamaree Rasoi said...

Very soothing and tempting looking preparation.

Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

Reshmi Mahesh said...

Yummy curry...

FunWidFud

Vidhya said...

Curry looks so beautiful and tempting.

Priya Suresh said...

Very inviting and comforting curry,delicious!

Ila said...

looks so colourful and tempting :)

Hema Mahen said...

Looks so yummy...

My Kitchen Antics said...

have never cooked with bottle gourd...i shud give it a go next time i come across it in the Indian store

Plateful said...

Love the combination of bottle gourd and lentil- very tempting! Nice pics, too.

Suji said...

Yummy combo :)

Panchpakwan said...

Curry looks delicious..

Ann Minard said...

Wow, very cool! In Italian cuisine this gourd is called gourd cucuzza.
Here in the south of the US they only grow this for looks not for eating, what a shame!

Madhavi said...

This is one of my fav curry...looks drooling..yummmm.

You have very nice blog and great recipes too..following you :))

http://vegetarianmedley.blogspot.com/

Torviewtoronto said...

delicious healthy combination looks wonderful

Jaisy James said...

dal curry looks delicious n nice click

Eat Hearty said...

Bottlegaurd is one of my fav curries....this looks yummy!! Glad to follow u!!

Ankita
http://eat-hearty.blogspot.com/

Raks said...

A hearty dish! love it with steamed rice!

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