Tetor dal (lentils cooked with bitter gourd and bottle gourd)

Name: Tetor dal (lentils cooked with bitter gourd and bottle gourd)
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup unfried yellow moong dal; 1 cup cubed bottle gourd (lauki); 2 bitter gourd sliced; 1 1/2 tsp ginger paste; 1 tbsp scraped coconut; 1/4 th tsp turmeric powder; 2 dry red chillies; 1/2 tsp mustard, methi and radhuni(ajmod) seeds for phoron; 1 tbsp mustard oil; 1 tsp ghee; 2 cups water approximately; To taste salt and sugar; 1 tbsp chopped coriander

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Another cuisine from Bengal this dal is very nutritious and best served in lunch with rice during the hot summer days.Bottlegourd has a cooling effect and hence very healthy.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

#dal /post -2
Another cuisine from Bengal this dal is very nutritious and best served in lunch with rice during the hot summer days.Bottlegourd has a cooling effect and hence very healthy.

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Ingredients

1/2 cupunfried yellow moong dal
1 cupcubed bottle gourd (lauki)
2bitter gourd sliced
1 1/2 tspginger paste
1 tbspscraped coconut
1/4th tsp turmeric powder
2dry red chillies
1/2 tspmustard, methi and radhuni(ajmod) seeds for phoron
1 tbspmustard oil
1 tspghee
2 cupswater approximately
To tastesalt and sugar
1 tbspchopped coriander

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Steps

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Cube bottle gourd and pressure cook with 1/2 cup water and little salt only one whistle.Open lid after 2 minutes.Set aside.Boil moong dal with salt,turmeric and ghee for 2 whistles with 1 cup water.Open pressure after 5 minutes.Meanwhile fry the bitter gourd. Mix all in the dal Heat mustard oil in a wok and sprinkle phoron and dry red chillies.When it splutters pour this in dal and boil till well mixed.The dal should not be overboiled.Add 1 tsp sugar and scraped coconut.Serve with rice.