Bottle gourd kootu

Name: Bottle gourd kootu
Total time: 600 s
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 bottle gourd; 1/2 cup Moong dal; 1/2 cup Scraped Coconut; 2 Red chillies; 1 tsp Cumin seeds; 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder; As Required Salt and water; For tempering-; 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; few curry leaves; pinch hing

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Bottle gourd kootu

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Ingredients

10 minutes

1bottle gourd
1/2 cupMoong dal
1/2 cupScraped Coconut
2Red chillies
1 tspCumin seeds
1/2 tspTurmeric powder
As RequiredSalt and water
For tempering-
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
fewcurry leaves
pinchhing

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Steps

10 minutes

1

Wash and cut bottle gourd inti small pieces.
2

Wash moong dal and add it into cooker
3

In the same cooker, add bottle gourd pieces. Cook for one whistle.
4

In a mixer jar add Scraped coconut, red chilli, cumin seeds and turmeric powder. Grind it into coarse paste
5

In the boiled dal & bottle gourd add salt and ground coconut paste. Allow to boil.
6

For tempering, in a small pan add 1 tsp ghee, add mustard seeds, curry leaves and hing. Add this into the kootu. Tasty Bootle gourd kootu is ready.