Surakkai Kuzhambu Recipe – Lauki Curry Recipe – Bottle Gourd Recipes

This is a gravy which i made using bottle gourd and this vegetable is particularly very good for you, it is good for weightloss and has many benefits in them..

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 25 to 30 mins
Serves : 4


Ingredients:

Bottle Gourd / Surakkai – 3 cups chopped
Shallots / Sambar Onion – 10 peeled
Garlic – 6 cloves peeled
Oil – 1 tblspn
Puli Kuzhambu Podi – 2 tblspn ( Recipe here)
Tamarind Pulp – 3 to 4 tblspn
Water – 2 cups
Salt to taste
Sugar or Jaggery to taste


For Seasoning:
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu – 1 tsp
Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi – 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves a spring

Method:

Heat oil in a pan, add in seasoning ingredients and let them sizzle.

Add in shallots and garlic. Saute for a min.

Add in chopped lauki and saute for 5 mins.

Add in tamarind pulp and mix well. Add in the spice powder and mix well.

Add in water, salt, sugar and bring it to a boil. Simmer for 10 mins.

Serve.

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