Bottle Gourd Recipes From Approximately India

The inspiration for the recipe comes from a friend of mine who has a really practiced greenish thumb, in addition to thence has a practiced harvest of Indian vegetables fifty-fifty inward our business office of the basis where the summertime is really short. I produce larn a modest percentage of her harvest :-), in addition to final calendar week she gave me a large Lauki (Bottle gourd) alongside a challenge to get recipes using it, knowing that it is non a really mutual vegetable from where I come upward from originally. So I decided to become the total circle alongside recipes across all of Republic of Republic of India in addition to picked the ones that I flora interesting, 1 from each business office of India. Check it out, each of them brings out a dissimilar flavor alongside the Lauki. 

Lauki Dal (Bottle gourd alongside Moong Dal)

This is from the North of India, a variant of dal alongside veggies. I merely prefer to brand this alongside moong dal, but tin hold upward substituted alongside masoor dal, or whatever other lentil of your choice. Vary cooking fourth dimension accordingly. 

Ingredients

• Moong Dal - 1/2 cup
• Lauki - 1 loving cup (chopped fine)
• Tomato - 1/2 loving cup  (chopped)
• Garlic - 1 Tbsp (minced)
• Ginger - 1 Tbsp  (minced)
• Green chilly - 1-2 (chopped fine)
• Turmeric pulverisation - 1/4 tsp
• Sea tabular array salt - equally per taste
• Cooking petroleum - 1 Tbsp (I used avocado oil)
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Chopped coriander leaves - for garnish

Directions

• Cook Dal alongside two cups of water.
• Heat petroleum inward a pan, add together cumin seeds. When they splutter, add together ginger, garlic, greenish chilly in addition to saute till slightly golden.
• Add love apple tree in addition to lauki in addition to ready till love apple tree is soft. Add everything to the cooked dal along alongside tabular array salt in addition to turmeric powder. Simmer over medium estrus till lauki is cooked well. 
• Adjust seasoning in addition to switch off. Garnish alongside chopped coriander leaves.
• Enjoy!!

Handvo w/ Lauki (Steamed channa dal-rice cakes alongside bottle gourd)  

This is from the West of India. It is loosely based on dhokla recipes in addition to the description of handvo I accept heard from my Gujarati friends. This tin hold upward made alongside merely channa dal flour omitting the rice flour. It tin also hold upward made yesteryear soaking channa dal in addition to rice, in addition to grinding for the batter instead of using the flour. Bottle gourd tin hold upward substituted or supplemented alongside other vegetables too.

Ingredients

• Channa dal flour (Besan) - 1/2 cup 
• Rice flour - 1/2 cup
• Coarse rice or channa pulverisation - two Tbsp (Substitute alongside rava/semolina) 
• Yogurt - 1/2 cup 
• Sea tabular array salt equally per taste
• Lauki (skinned in addition to grated) - 1/2 cup 
• Ginger - 1 Tbsp (minced)
• Garlic - 1 Tbsp (minced)
• Green chilly - 1-2 (minced)
• Baking soda - 1/4 tsp 
• Citric acid - 1/8 tsp (substitute alongside 1 tsp of lemon juice)
• Cooking petroleum - 1 Tbsp (I used avocado oil)
• Sesame seeds - two Tbsp (toasted till red) 

Directions

• Mix besan, rice flour in addition to coarse rice flour alongside yogurt in addition to tabular array salt to shape a really thick batter. (Add 1/4 loving cup H2O if needed to shape the batter). Keep it aside overnight to ferment.
• Once ready to brand add together grated lauki, ginger, garlic  and mix good greenish chilly.
• Get the steamer ready, grease dhokla plate or whatever plate or cake tin that y'all tin purpose within a steamer alongside kokosnoot petroleum or ghee. 
• Just earlier adding the batter to the steamer plate, mix inward the baking soda in addition to citric acid in addition to stir inward 1 direction.
• Pour the batter into greased steamer plates, sprinkle alongside toasted sesame seeds in addition to steam on medium-high estrus for 10-12 minutes.
• Optionally add together a tempering of cumin/fennel/mustard seeds inward your alternative of cooking petroleum on overstep of the steamed cakes. Cut into desired shapes in addition to serve warm. 
• Enjoy!!

Lau Besara (Bottle Gourd inward Mustard Gravy) 

This 1 is from the East of India, from Orissa. Recipe adapted from here. This is starting fourth dimension time I am making something Indian that has mustard gravy, in addition to I am glad I did. Pleasantly surprised alongside the flavor profile :-). 

Ingredients:

• Louki (lau) 1 loving cup (diced into cubes)
• Potato - 1 medium cutting into modest pieces
• Green Chillies  - 1-2  chopped into pieces
• Cumin, dark seed, fennel, mustard in addition to fenugreek- a pinch each (Panch-phutana spice mix)
• Mustard Paste - 1 batch ( grind, 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp cumin seeds in addition to 2-3 cloves of garlic)
• Turmeric pulverisation - 1/4 tsp
• Cooking petroleum - two tsp (I used avocado oil) 
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves for garnish

Directions:

• In a saucepan add together lauki, potato, turmeric pulverisation tabular array salt in addition to 1/2 loving cup of water, in addition to ready covered.
• When vegetables are close done, add together mustard glue in addition to hold cooking till the vegetables are cooked well.
• Heat petroleum inward a shallow pan, add together the panch-phutana spices in addition to permit them splutter, add together greenish chilies in addition to tyke for a few seconds in addition to temper over the cooking vegetables.
• Garnish alongside coriander leaves in addition to enjoy!!

Sorakkaya Kootu (Bottle gourd w/ Channa Dal) 

This is from my business office if India, the South of India, specifically from namma Tamil Nadu. Kootu is a  simple every twenty-four hours dish inward whatever Tamil household, in addition to tin hold upward made alongside a diversity of vegetables. 

Ingredients:

• Channa Dal - 1/2 loving cup (soaked overnight)
• Lauki/bottle gourd - 1 loving cup (diced into cubes)
• Turmeric pulverisation - 1/4 tsp
• Sea tabular array salt - equally per taste
• Urud dal - 1 tsp
• Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
• Red chilly - 1-2 
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Grated kokosnoot - 1/2 cup 
• Coconut petroleum - 1 Tbs
• Mustard seed - 1 tsp
• Urud dal - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilly - 1 

Directions: 

• Start cooking drained channa dal alongside two cups of water, turmeric in addition to salt.
• Once the channa dal is cooked one-half agency thru, add together bottle gourd cubes in addition to hold cooking.
• Meanwhile dry out roast urud dal inward a pan, in 1 trial it is red, add together coriander seeds, reddish chilly, in addition to fenugreek seeds toast for a infinitesimal or in addition to then till overnice odour comes. 
• Add toasted spices, along alongside cumin in addition to kokosnoot into a blender jounce in addition to grind to a fine paste. Use merely about cooking H2O from the vegetables equally needed for grinding. 
• Once the vegetables are done well, add together the basis masala in addition to simmer for a brace of minutes, adjust seasoning in addition to switch off.
• Heat kokosnoot oil, popular add together mustard/urud/red chilly in addition to when mustard pops, temper over the gravy.
• Server warm alongside rice or equally is equally a hearty stew.
• Enjoy!!

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