Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Lauki Chutney

Ingredients:-
One small lauki (or sorakai in telugu)
Red chillies to taste
One table spoon of seseme seeds (white til ) roasted
One table spoon of peanuts roasted
One big spoon of channa dal
One spoon of Udad dal
Half a table spoon of mustard seeds
A 1/4 spoon of hing
a 1/4 spoon of haldi
4-5 fenugreek (methi) seeds
Lemon sized tamarind, soaked and water squeezed of it--should be thick
Salt as per taste
Two tablespoons of oil

Method:-
Grate the lauki and squeeze out the water from it.and keep it aside
Take a pan, pour the oil into it and when hot, lower the flame to medium first put the channa dal, then the udad dal, then mustard seeds and lastly red chillies and methi seeds.
Add haldi and hing to the oil
In a mixi grind the fried dals and chillies to a fine powder, add the til seeds and the peanuts to it.
Grind all that together and lastly add the grated lauki---add salt and tamarind paste to it
Seasoning:-
In a pan pour a little oil and add some mustard seeds, one red chillie broken to bits and a pinch of hing and curry leaves
Pour that on the chutney
Enjoy !!!

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