Potlakaya Kura / Snake Gourd with Dal || Side Dish || No Onion-Garlic Recipe || Lunch

Side dish: Roti / Rice : South India

Servings: 4

Duration: 20 mins

Any Indian meal contains Dal, curry, rice, roti and curd it’s so authentic and traditional to have a meal with curries and it gives you so much satisfaction with happiness. All these curries which I was prepared are the same process following from many generations and learnt from others like grand-grand parents. It’s like a chain process and love to know more and more from grand parents.

Curry is a side dish either wet/ dry prepared out of vegetables/ leafy vegetables. It should be cooked and make sure it contain some amount of nutrients in it for good health diet. You can dip roti in curry and eat, you feel the flavours of it really delicious 😋

In South India it’s common recipe and should be a side dish in every meal, this Dal suits with any rice/jeera rice/ fresh hot rice with ghee if you like to have it with any phulka/ Roti then it’s great combination 👍

Coming to Recipe, I don’t know how many of you know snake Gourd or tasted it or love this vegetable, but I like this a lot in any form either it could be fry, stir fry, curry or mix in Dal. If anyone of you doesn’t taste yet must try!

Today I prepared Dal with snake gourd and it is a no onion garlic recipe, if you’re in vrat / pooja , you can have it nicely.

Nutrition facts:

Snake Gourd: Vitamins A & C. Minerals iron , calcium, potassium and sodium

Bengal Gram: Vitamins B6. Minerals iron , calcium, potassium, magnesium, fiber, protein and sodium

Let’s start with Ingredients and follows Procedure:

Ingredients:

Snake Gourd/ Potlakaya – 1 – medium – peeled off – diced
Bengal gram – 80 gms – soak for 30 mins
Tomatoes 🍅 – 2 – medium – Diced
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Red chilly powder – 1/2 tb sp
Coriander powder – 1/4 cup
Fresh grated coconut – 6 tb sp
Green chillies – 4 – Slices
Salt – 1/2 tb sp

For Tempering:

Mustard seeds/ Avvalu – 1 tea spoon
Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1 tea spoon
Urad dal/ Minapappu – 1 tea spoon
Curry leaves – 4 to 5
Oil – 1 tb sp

Procedure:

Heat cooker over low to medium heat
Add oil
Add tempering
Let them splutter
Add tomatoes & Saute 1 min
Add spices, salt and turmeric powder
Add soaked Dal & chopped snake Gourd
Saute and add 2 cups of water
Close the cooker with lid and whistle
Cook for 3 whistles over medium heat
Let it become cool
Open cooker and it’s cooked well
Mash gently with masher
Add chopped coriander leaves
Mix well
Potlakaya Kura ready to serve
Serve it with rice / roti
Happy cooking & enjoy your day 🙂

Step by step process shown below with pictures:

Note:

Adjust spices according to taste
Double the ingredients to Increase the quantity
Perserve upto 3 days in refrigerator ( i think you would finish it before ☺️ )
If you don’t like or don’t find snake gourd, you can replace it with Bottle Gourd/ Potato 🥔
No onion garlic recipe
If you would like have it with onion & garlic. You can add 1/2 diced onion & 2 chopped cloves, add these two after tempering ☺️
Hope you like it

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