Bottle gourd is extremely popular for reducing high blood pressure and keeping heart healthy. It has a lot of vitamins and minerals and extremely popular for weight loss as well.
This is very simple and easy dish to make especially when very tired . It tastes delicious with both roti and rice.
This type of puluskura is very popular in Andhra and can be made with other leafy vegetables like gongura &Thotakura (Amaranthus)
Recipe:
Ingredients:
Bottle gourd (size: medium )
Tomato - 1
Onion - 1 (Big)
Green chillies - 3 big
Seasoning:
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tspn
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tspn
fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tspn
Split urud dal - 1/2 tspn
Channa dal - 1/2 tspn
Hing (Asafoetida)
Turmeric - a pinch
Oil - 2 tspn
Tamarind juice - 2 tspn
whole wheat flour - 1 tspn
Procedure :
- Chop green chillies.
- Cut Bottle gourd and tomato into small pieces
- Chop onions fine and long , so they are visible in the bottle gourd pieces.
- In a small pressure cooker , add 2 tspn oil. Once heated, add the seasoning ingredients
- Once the mustard seeds splutter , add the chopped onion , a pinch of salt and fry them till transparent.
- Add the tomato pieces and stir
- Once cooked, Add bottle gourd pieces and add water till the pieces are slightly visible.
- Either put the cooker lid on and wait for one whistle or put a normal plate as a lid and check till it cooks.
- By the time the pieces cook , take a small bowl, add one tspn of whole wheat flour and water , mix till its a thick liquid.Keep it aside. This liquid is used to thicken the gravy, once the pieces are cooked in the water.
- By the time the pieces cook ,soak tamarind in water and make a thick juice by pressing tamarind in water.
- Once the pieces are cooked, add tamarind juice ,salt and a pinch of turmeric.
- Mix the gravy and add a tspn of whole wheat flour water to let the gravy thicken.
- Add coriander leaves or kasuri methi for garnishing
- Can be had with roti or rice .
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