Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry)
Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry)

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Lauki Chana Dal is a simple nutritious curry made with bottle gourd and bengal gram lentils. This is a North Indian or Punjabi style preparation for this curry made in a pressure cooker. This Punjabi lauki chana dal curry is an easy and quick recipe and goes very well with roti or phulkas. This recipe is made quite often at home.

Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lauki dal (bottlegourd lentil curry) using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry):
  1. Take 1 Cup Toor Dal
  2. Make ready 1 Tomato
  3. Make ready 1 Onion chopped
  4. Take 5 - 6 Cloves garlic
  5. Make ready 1 ginger small piece of chopped
  6. Take 1 bottlegourd medium sized
  7. Get 1 Pinch jeera whole
  8. Prepare 1 Pinch mustard seeds
  9. Prepare 3 Tablespoons Sunflower oil
  10. Make ready 2 Teaspoons Corriander powder
  11. Take 1 Teaspoon jeera powder
  12. Prepare 2 Pinchs turmeric powder
  13. Take 1 Sprig corriander powder chopped
  14. Prepare 2 chillies dried red

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Steps to make Lauki Dal (Bottlegourd lentil curry):
  1. Boil the toor dal and mash it to a fine paste.
  2. Chop tomato, onions, garlic and ginger finely. Peel the bottelgourd and chop it into 1 inch size cubes.
  3. Heat oil in a pan. Splutter mustard seeds and jeera. Add tomato, onion, ginger, garlic and red chillies and saute.
  4. Add turmeric, salt, jeera powder and corriander powder and saute till it browns.
  5. Add the bottlegourd and continue frying it till it becomes soft and well-cooked.
  6. Once the mix in step 3 is cooked to a light brown, add the cooked dal and mix until it blends together well.
  7. Garnish with corriander leaves. Serve hot with rice or chapati.

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