Bottle Gourd Curry is a tasty and healthy gravy recipe made with bottle gourd(lauki)and Bengal gram(chana dal). This is a very simple, quick, and easy delicious veggie dish that is served with boiled rice, Rotis, and bagara rice.
To make this recipe, I recommend t0 soak chana dal for at least an hour. I make this lauki chana dal in a pot, but you can make it in a pressure cooker. I usually make this recipe spicy by adding more red chilies and special garam masala, but you can keep it less spicy or mildly spiced to taste.
Lauki was the favorite veggie of Our Beloved Prophet (PBUH) because it is also sunnah to eat.
To cook this dish, I used the traditional spices that are used by my mother.
In various styles to cook this veggie dish, some people put tomato, a green chili, etc., etc., but I didn’t use all these. Very healthy and delicious,s aslauki chana dal is prepared with very few spices, let's go ahead to know how to make lauki chana dal dish with step-by-step photos...
Tips:
To prepare this dish, use a small and young bottle gourd. You can also utilize the skin of the gourd to make lauki kebabs.Avoid using a bottle gourd that has a lot of seeds. After peeling the bottle gourd,
Always place it in water to prevent it from turning black. Well-roasting is an important aspect of Pakistani cooking.
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Firstly, rinse and soak the chana dal in the hot water for an hour. Peel and chop the bottle gourd into small pieces and put them in the water bowl. Peel and coarsely chop the onion.
Boil chana dal in the pot/saucepan and add ¼ tsp turmeric powder. Mix well, remove the scums on top of the chana dal, and cook it until the dal is soft. And finely crush the black peppercorn and brown cardamom together.
Heat the oil in the pot and put dried fenugreek seeds, let them crackle for a minute, then add onion slices, saute the onion for 4-5 m, then add ginger garlic paste and stir for a minute.
Dissolve all the spice powders in a little water and mix well, then add the dissolved spices to the pot and mix well again over a low-medium flame.
Roast the spices until oil is separated, then put the bottle gourd, roast the lauki with spices very well for 5 minutes over medium flame.
After 5 minutes, add boiled chana dal to the lauki, stir well until oil comes out,p then add crushed spices.
Stir to well combine until oil is separated, pour hot and boiled water, bring it to a boil, then allow to cook another 10 minutes over the low-medium flame, keep stirring occasionally. ally
Once cooks pro, perfectly simmer it for 5 minutes over very low heat.
Lauki chana dal is done to serve
Lauki chana dal is usually served with boiled rice, pickle, and salad with rotis and naan.
Lauki Chana Dal is a tasty and healthy gravy recipe made with a bottle gourd(lauki)and Bengal gram(chana dal)t. This is a very simple, quick, and easy delicious veggie dish.
Ingredients:
- 400g, guard lauki
- , large onion
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- ½ tsp, crushed red chili
- 1 tsp, rushed coriander powder
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- ¼, dried fenugreek seeds
- 1 ½ cups, chana dal
- 1 cup of cooking oil
- ½ tsp, black peppercorn
- 2, brown cardamom
How to Make Lauki Dal?
- Heat the oil in the pot and put the dried fenugreek seeds
- Let them crackle for a few seconds, then addonions slices
- Sauté them for 4-5 minutes, then add fresh ginger garlic paste
- Fry well with the onion over a medium-low flame
- On a plate,e combine all dry spices, powdered red chili, crushed red chili, salt, crushed coriander, and turmeric powder.
- Add a little water to make a smooth paste.
- Now put spices pasteintoo the onion and stir well until the oil separates.d
- Then add chopped lauki to the cooked spices and stir to mix them well
- Once they are roasted very well with the spices
- Pour boiled chana dal and mix again, then add crushed black powder and adjust salt at this sta.ge
- Stir to combine till oil comes to the surface
- Now add 1 cup of hot, boiled water
- Bring it to a boil and cover the lid
- Allow cooking another 10 minutes over medium heat
- Right after reducing the heat, simmer it for 5 minutes
- Note: depends on how much you want to keep thick/thin gravy in the dish
- Now, lauki chana dal is ready to serve
- Lauki chana dalis are usually served with boiled rice, pickle, and salad with rotis and naan.
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