DELICIOUS RIDGE GOURD CURRY & DAL POWDER RADISH CURRY

  

 

Ridge gourd is a vegetable used to make dal, curry, and chutney. Its skin is also used to make chutney. In Tamil, it is called Peerkangai and is easily available in the market. Ridge gourd is also known as "Turai" in Hindi, "Jhinge" in Bengali, and "Beerakaya" in Telugu.

 When compared to other vegetables, the cost of this is very low. The time required to cook this vegetable is also less, and it gets cooked easily as it is soft and fibrous. Here is a recipe for ridge gourd curry that you can prepare in a jiffy.

INGREDIENTS:

Ridge Gourd

Grated coconut

Salt

Oil

Mustard seeds

Red chillies

Urad dal

Rice flour (if needed)

PREPARATION:

Wash ridge gourds and peel the skin

Cut into small pieces

Take kadai. pour oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal and red chillies. Fry till golden brown

Then add ridge gourd and salt. Let it cook for sometime

Add grated coconuts. If the curry has some water, add little rice flour.

Mix well and serve hot with white rice, ghee and sambar.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another recipe – DAL POWDER RADISH CURRY.

Radish is one such fine vegetable that goes well with dal, sambhar, curry and even paratha. Radish and onion combinations in sambhar are highly popular and most enjoyed food in Tamil Nadu. Light in weight, easy to peel and chop and with these super qualities radish is included in the meals at any time of the day. Here is a recipe for radish curry with dal powder.

INGREDIENTS:

Radish

Salt

Turmeric

Oil

Toor dal

Channa dal

Urad dal

Asafoetida

Red chillies

Mustard seeds

Curry leaves

PREPARATION:

wash, peel the skin and chop radish into pieces

Cook it in a pressure cooker

Take a wok, add little oil and roast toor dal, channa dal, urad dal, asafoetida, and red chillies till golden brown

Allow it to cool and grind it.

Open the cooker and pour the radish in a colander. Let it cool

Place a wok, pour oil, add mustard seeds and when they crackle add curry leaves, then radish. Mix well.

Now add turmeric powder, salt and the grind dal powder.

Mix well and allow it to be on the stove for a few minutes. Then transfer it into the serving bowl.

Serve it along with white rice & ghee or Rasam.