Bottle gourd gravy

Ingredients:-

Bottle guard – 1 number

Onion – ½ cup

Tomato – 1

Green chili – 2

Chili powder – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – 2 (or 3) tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt – to taste

Oil – 1 tsp

 

For seasoning:-

Channa dal – ½ tsp

Urad dal – ½ tsp

Mustard seeds – ½ tsp

Curry leaf – 1 spring

Method:-

Heat oil in a pan and once it is heated up add channa dal, urad dal, mustard seeds. Allow mustard seeds to splutter and add curry leaves. Then add onion, green chilies and fry till the onion turn into translucent. Once it is done add tomato to the mixture and sauté till it turns into soft and add bottle guard, turmeric and mix it well. Fry these mixtures for 2 mins and add the remaining masala, salt and add enough water to cook the vegetable.

Boiling mixtue

Once the vegetable cooked remove from heat and garnish it with coriander leaf. This gravy goes with plain rice.

 

Note: – Once the bottle guard cooked you can mash it with potato masher or spinach masher.

 

Instead of bottle guard you can use brinjal, ridge gourd

Chappathi

Chappathi is Indian flat bread made with wheat flour.

Ingredients:-

Wheat flour – 1 cup

Water – ¼ cup

Salt – to taste

Oil – to fry

Method:-

Mix wheat flour and salt and then add water little by little and mix it well. If needed add more water and start mixing it till it becomes soft dough. Cover the dough and keep aside for 10 mins. After that make small balls of the dough and roll it into flat chappathi. Add flour if the dough is sticking.

Once it is done, heat a thawa and place the flatted chappathi dough. Turn the chappathi every 10 to 15 seconds. Remove from head once it turns into light brown shade and serve hot with any gravy.