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Lauki Chana Dal Recipe ( Bottle Gourd Curry )

Lauki Chana Dal | Lauki Dal | How to Make Bottle Gourd Curry with step-by-step photos...

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.

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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.

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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.

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After 5 minutes, add boiled chana dal to the lauki, stir well until oil comes out,p then add crushed spices.

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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.

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Vegetable Soup Recipe

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Vegetable Soup || Vegetable Soup Recipe || How to make vegetable Soup With step-by-step photos

Vegetable soup is one of the most wholesome, simple, and flavorful versions of the soup. It is customizable to bring in your favorite taste with selected veggies.

It’s comforting and 1,000 times better than what you’ll get in a can! Full of flavor and so easy to make, you can’t go wrong with a big warm bowl of vegetable soup.

This vegetable soup is made from a variety of veggies. Typically carrots, tomatoes, celery, cabbage, and beans. I also added broccoli and green chilies for spiciness in the soup. while you can add veggies of your choice.

Mainly, vegetable stock is used in the vegetable soup, but I added chicken stock to make it healthier and tastier. However, if you are a vegetarian then can skip chicken stock.

This recipe, which you’ll want to add to your dinner or lunch, yields a pot full and makes great leftovers. This soup also works for diet purposes.

For the best result, follow my detailed step-by-step photo instructions and tips below the recipe card.

Can I freeze Vegetable Soup?

Yes, this vegetable soup freezes really well and reheats well

Adding extra flavor, herbs, and spices to add

This soup has a mild seasoning blend to it, which I prefer (because it lets the flavor of the vegetable shine), but you can definitely add more herb flavor or spices to taste.

For more similar recipes:

Chicken corn soup

Simple chicken soup

Tomato macaroni soup

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In the pot, pour the water and combine chicken pieces, chopped ginge,r garlic, and chopped onion.

Add coriander seeds, black peppercorns, chopped tomato, and salt.

Stir to mix well and bring it to a boil on thehigh flamee

Cover with the lid and allow to cook for around an hour.

Meanwhile, prepare all veggie.s

Steam them together in the steamer for 30 minutes. Steam will help to make soft veggies.

Once the stock is done, one strain it

Boil the stock again very well and add steamed vegetables to the pot.

Next, add black pepper, white pepper, chopped green chilies, and fresh lemon juice to the stock.

Give them a good stir.

Now add soya sauce, sugar, and hot chili sauce to the soup.p

Further, stir to combine we.ll.

Cover it and let it cook for about 15 minutes on low-medium flame.

Remove the lid and add dissolved cornstarch to the soup to give it a bit of thickness.s

In the end, put chopped green spring onions into the soup and mix it up.

Vegetable soup is ready to serve

Serve hot and enjoy!

Mixed Tadka Dal With Rice Recipe

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Mixed Tadka Dal With Rice || Tadka Dal With Rice || How to make mixed dal with rice with step-by-step photos and video

Mixed Tadka Dal is literally a delicious and mouthwatering kind of cooked dal. Which has an amazing and flavored taste that attracts it and goes well with rice and chapatis

Mixed tadka dal is made from various kinds of lentils. Which lentils will be used in the mixed dal is totally your choice. Here, I used moong (yellow lentil), masoor (pink or orange), and sabut masoor (black whole lentil) to make mixed dal. This is a delicious, aromatic, and flavored lentil recipe. I just put Tarka over the dal, but you can fry it as well to enhance the taste of the dal.

Most people in Pakistan love to eat dal chawal/lentil rice for lunch. A popular recipe is considered especially during the summer. I prepared mixed dal tadka with steamed rice. It is made with onion, tomato, and spices.

Literally, relish this mouthwatering, mildly spiced with roti, naan, or your favorite steamed rice. Additionally. Dal fry version, I will add them later in the post. Here I also cooked steamed rice alongside da that you can watch in a video, but not explain it in a post, as my focus of the post is on the dal.

My Latest Video Mixed Dal with Rice:

What is the Difference between Dal Tadka and Dal Fry?

Both these lentil recipes are made with different cooking techniques. While the ingredients are more or less the same, the unique cooking method implied makes a difference to the final flavors and taste.

In a dal Tadka:

Moong masoor dal is cooked with aromatics like onion, garlic or ginger, turmeric, and tomatoes. After being lightly mashed, a tadka, or tempering mixture (fried in ghee or oil) of spices, herbs, and seasonings is added to the dal. Then mixed and served.

For a dal fry:

The dal is simply cooked plain or with the addition of turmeric. which is then mixed with a sauteed onion-tomato base and further simmered

Both of these recipes are famous in the Dhaba (highway and roadside eateries)in Pakistan.

Ingredients of this dal:

I used those ingredients that are easily available in every desi kitchen.

Veggies: you will need onion, tomatoes, both finely chopped for this dal fry recipe

Green chilies: not as hot as jalapeno, but the just-right level of spice for the dish

Garlic: the subtle flavor is essential in this recipeButut if you don’t like to add garlic to it, they might well skip it. Though some flavor profiles will be amiss

Dry red chilies: Dry red chilies bring a mild spicy flavor to dal. But if you are not a spice-lover, then skip it. I highly recommend using dry red chilies in tadka to make a more aromatic and flavorful dal recipe.

Coriander leaves: This simple herb brings a much-needed hint of freshness to the dal tadka

Cumin seeds: Adding crackled cumin to dal is the most important part of any type of dal. Cumin plays a good role in bringing aroma and flavor to dal.

Additional seasoning: You will also need several pantry staples, including ginger, turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chili powder,garam masala, oil, and salt