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Simple Bottle Gourd Dal Recipe – Sorakkai Paruppu Recipe

October 7, 2015 By Aarthi 3 Comments

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This is one dish which my mom makes often. The one thing she do is changes the vegetable that goes into this. She adds cucumber, pumpkin, snakegourd and stuff like that. I will surely post those recipes soon. This is one simple recipe that includes dal, veggies and it has no coconut in it.. It taste yummy when had with plain hot rice and ghee. 

Meanwhile check out my Papaya Kootu Recipe & Pumpkin & Cowpeas Kootu

Capsicum Dal
Moong Dal for Roti
Vegetable Dal
Mum’s Dal for Rice
Panch Phoron Dal
Bitter Gourd Dal
Tomato Dal
Carrot Dal
Hyderabadi Katti Dal
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out.

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

Ingredients:

Bottle Gourd / Sorakkai – 3 cups peeled and chopped
Yellow Split Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu – 3/4 cup
Garlic – 2 cloves
Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3
Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp
Green Chillies – 2
Salt to taste
Water – 2 cup


For Seasoning:
Oil – 1 tblspn
Ghee – 1 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Onion – 1 small chopped finely
Garlic – 2 cloves chopped finely

Method:

Take bottlegourd, and all the ingredients mentioned in a pot, cover with water, Bring it to a boil, simmer the pot and cook on a low heat till dal is cooked. It will take around 15 mins.

Now add in salt and mix well.

Now make seasoning by heating oil, add in cumin and let it sizzle. Add in onions, garlic and chillies. Saute till golden,

Pour this over the dal and mix well.

Serve

Pictorial:

Take your bottle gourd
Peel off the skin
Cut it in half lengthwise
Scoop the seeds
cut it into small pieces
Take it in a pan
add in green chillies..Just prick it with a knife
add in garlic
add in peeled shallots
Add in washed dal
Pour in water
mix well
Add in some turmeric powder
Mix well
Cook till dal is done
You can see the dal has some texture in them, this is how i like it
Add in salt
mix well
Now lets make the seasoning
Add cumin seeds to oil or ghee
add in onions, chillies and garlic
saute them
fry till golden brown
pour it into the curry
Mix well
Serve
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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    October 7, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    Watch otchikoren videos ..really you will find very useful recipes there.so u can try and share them

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  2. Aysha

    January 25, 2018 at 4:23 am

    Can we add tomato to it

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    • Aarthi

      January 25, 2018 at 10:25 am

      yes u can

      Reply

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