Pudalangai kootu ( snake gourd curry)

Ingredients

• Onion -1(large)
• Tomato - 1
• Green Chilly - 3
• Bengal gram - 1/2cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Coconut - 3 talepsoons
• Cumin - 1 teaspoon
• Snake gourd - 250 g
• Mustard + urad dal -1 teaspoon
• Curry leaves, salt
• Oil - 2 teaspoons

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Preparation

• Cook bengal gram in a pressure cooker and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan, crackle mustard + urad dal, curry leaves and add sliced onion, saute until it is cooked.
• Add chopped tomato and stir until the tomato is cooked. Add chopped snake gourd, turmeric powder, salt and a cup of water and cook the vegetables.
• Make a paste of coconut, cumin, green chillies and add it to the boiling curry. Add cooked bengal gram to the curry and mix well.
• Cook for another 5 minutes on low heat until everything is well incorporated.
• Garnish with Curry leaves and coriander leaves and serve with rice or chappathi.
• Serve the kootu with white rice and appalam or pappadam. It is good to eat with rasam.
• The spicy, tangy rasam actually adds a lot of taste to the kootu which is other wise slightly bland.