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Sorakkai Kootu / Bottle Gourd Kootu / Lauki & Moong Dal Cooked in a Spicy Coconut Masala

November 9, 2013 By Aarthi 15 Comments

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This is one kootu which we grew up on. 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 coconut. It taste yummy when had with plain hot rice and ghee. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out.

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

Preparation Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Serves : 4 to 5

Ingredients:

Bottle Gourd / Sorakkai / Lauki – 3 cups chopped
Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu – 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Water as needed


For Grinding:
Coconut – 3/4 cup grated
Dry Red Chilli – 2
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi – 1 tsp
Rice Flour – 2 tsp


For Tempering:
Oil – 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku –  1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Method:

Peel and chop bottle gourd into a medium size pieces. Wash them well. Add them to a pot.

Add in washed moong dal and cover it with water. Season with salt and mix well. Bring it to boil, simmer and cook for 15 to 20 mins till the dal is cooked.

Take grinding ingredients in a blender, add water and make into a smooth paste.

Add this to the dal mixture and mix well. Cook this for 5 mins.

Now make seasoning. Heat oil and crackle mustard and curry leaves.

Pour this over the curry and mix well.

Serve with rice.

Pictorial:

Take your bottle gourd

Peel em

Chop them

Add it to a pot

Add in washed moongdal

Cover with some water and put on stove

Add in salt

Cover with a lid

Cook till the dal and lauki is cooked

Take grinding ingredients in a mixer

Make into a smooth paste

Add it to the kootu

Bring it to boil

I forgot to add turmeric while grinding

Mix well

Done

Make tempering

Pour it over

Mix well

Serve

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Filed Under: Bottle Gourd, Kootu, Lauki, Post Pregnancy Food, Recent Recipes, Sorakkai

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. vivek

    May 22, 2014 at 7:14 am

    easy and healthy dish…

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  2. sabareesan

    August 18, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    Yummy dish.. I used to eat this w/o rice itself when my mom prepares….

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  3. Venkat

    September 6, 2014 at 6:20 am

    Thanks for the detailed photos of every ste. Really appreciate it.

    Reply
  4. Eswar

    October 10, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    Soooperrr dish aarthi.. Am looking for a variety of sorakaya dishes.. This looks perfect to cook for anybody

    Reply
  5. Anonymous

    March 9, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Today i tried this dish. Really yummy. Thank you for your recipies. I am trying one by one.

    Reply
  6. Anonymous

    March 31, 2015 at 6:54 am

    Superb

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  7. Anonymous

    June 25, 2015 at 9:16 am

    Thank u aarthi for giving this wonderful dish. It was awesome !!!

    Reply
  8. Malathi Pillay

    September 21, 2015 at 4:36 am

    Can I leave out the rice flour or substitute it with something else? Thank you.

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  9. Aarthi

    September 21, 2015 at 6:22 am

    @Malathi Pillayu can simply leave out rice flour and grind some soaked rice along with coconut or leave it completely. it will still taste good

    Reply
  10. sencha

    November 17, 2015 at 6:59 am

    superb

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  11. Anonymous

    April 28, 2016 at 7:35 am

    different taste, very nice.

    Reply
  12. archna

    March 23, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    Can we use dry coconut powder instead of fresh omen

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  13. Prashi

    April 25, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    Tried this for lunch today…. Felt heavenly with rice and was also simple to make. Thank you so much for this recipe

    Reply
  14. Aparajita Bose

    January 3, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    I was born in Chennai and loved all sorts of South Indian recipes, and recently tried this one. My (north) family absolutely loved it. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply

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