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Recipe for Bottle Gourd Chutney
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Ingredients
- Bottle gourd- Quarter sized or 1 cup pieces
- Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
- Coriander leaves- Fistful
- Split black gram lentil urad dal- 1 tsp
- Split chickpea lentil chana dal- 1 tsp
- Red chillies- 2 no.
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Tamarind- Marble sized
- Asafoetida- A pinch
- Cooking oil- 2 tsp
Instructions
Preparation
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Wash bottle gourd and peel the skin off using a peeler, then cut vertically in to half. Scoop out the seeds and chop bottle gourd kernel in to big chunks.
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Add all the bottle gourd pieces in to a pan along with 1/2 cup of water. Cook it in medium flame till the pieces are soft.
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Meanwhile heat a skillet or wok adding oil, urad dal, chana dal and red chillies. Fry them together till the lentils turn little brown.
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Transfer all the roasted ingredients in to a mixer jar along with grated coconut, salt, asafoetida, coriander leaves and cooked bottle gourd pieces. Grind them together to a semi course paste.
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Bottle gourd chutney is ready. You can relish it with steamed rice, idli and dosa.
Notes
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You can replace red chillies by green chillies. In that case no need of roasting green chillies.
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Do not skip adding coriander leaves while grinding chutney. It adds unique flavor to the chutney.
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I skipped seasoning the chutney, you can add.
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