Bottle gourd (Suraikai / Lauki) Dal

Sorakaya or surakkai pappu is a south indian dal recipe made using lauki, also called bottle gourd in English. Sorakaya or anapakaya is a Telugu word for kaddu/lauki, and this is a thick dal eaten along with rice.

Different dals are served in south indian meal platters, and each dal tastes delicious and is best when served with chutneys, ghee, and pickles.

This is a quick dal recipe where all the ingredients, including the veggie that is sorakaya, are put together and cooked well. These dal recipes are quick, healthy, nutritious, and tasty too.

Incredients:

Moong dal  – 1 cup
Bottleguard  – 1 small
Oil – for seasoning
Mustard seed  – 1 tsp
Urad dal  – 1 tsp
Hing -pinch
Green chilli  – 2slit
Onion  -1
Tomoto -2
Chilli powder -2 tsp
Coriander powder -1 tsp
Curry leaves  -few
Grated coconut -2 spoons
Salt  – for taste

Steps:

1. Fry moong dal until the raw smell goes off.
2. Add cut bottle guard‚  and fried moong dal into the cooker and boil until three whistles.

3. Put oil in a pan.
4. Once the oil gets hot, put mustard seeds and urad dal.
5. Once musturd seed starts splutter put hing and green chilli slits.
6. Once you feel the spice of green chilli, put the curry leaves.
7. Add the onion and fry it.
8. Once the onion gets translucent, add the tomato and salt.

9. Once tomato boiled and get mussy add chilli powder and coriander powder and stir it.
10. Once the raw smell of spices is gone, add the boiled moong dal and bottle guard in it and cook for 10 mins.

11. Make milk from the grated coconut and add to the curry, and let it cook for another 2 minutes.

12. Now the tasty bottle guard dal is ready.

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