February 18, 2012

Churakka Curry(Bottle gourd/Lauki/Surakai curry) -Indian Recipe

Ingredients
Toor dal/tuvara parippu - 1/4 cup
Churakka/Bottle gourd(cut into cubes)-2cup
Tomato - 1 (diced)
Onion - 1 (diced)
Green chilly - 2 (sliced)
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Salt to taste
Small onion - 4
Extra virgin olive oil - 2 tspn
Mustard seeds - 1tspn
Curry leaves - 2 springs
Dried Red chillies - 2 (broken into two)
Preparation
1.Pressure cook the toor dal and keep aside.
2.Cook bottle gourd along with turmeric powder,chilli powder,green chillies,onion ,tomato ,salt and required water.
3.Add the cooked dal to it.Boil for 5 minutes.
6.Heat oil in a pan.Splutter mustard seeds. Add dried red chillies and curry leaves.Pour this into the curry for seasoning.
Serve with rice.

6 comments:

  1. This is comfort food to me Saranya, very yummy with rice..

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  2. yummy and delicious...i made this lot of time..i like it with rice

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  3. yummy.....creamy n delicious luking curry

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  4. delicious curry, nice preparation..

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  5. Comforting and very yummy.

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