Pavakkai Usili. Bitter Gourd Usili. Kakarkai Usili. Karela Usili.

Ingredients:

Bitter Gourd 1/2 kilo(roughly chopped)
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon
Chana dal 1/2 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few
Green chilies 3 finely chopped
Dry red chilies 6
Chana dal 1 cup(soaked in water for 20 minutes)
Ginger-garlic paste 1 spoon
Fennel seeds 3 spoons
Salt(to grind with dal)
Salt for bitter gourd
Turmeric 1 pinch
Curry leaves few(to grind)
Oil 2 cups

Method:

In a blender dry grind fennel seeds, salt, dry chilies and curry leaves. Set them aside.

Wet grind chana dal(soaked) bit coarsely and set aside. In a pan, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, curry leaves, chana and urad dal. Let them pop and splutter well.

To this add green chilies and bitter gourd. Fry well.

Add salt and 1 pinch of turmeric powder. Sprinkle little water over this. Cover and cook.

When it is 3/4th cooked add wet ground paste and fry over high heat without lid. Let the dal paste blend with gourd. Toss to all the sides..until dal gets fried and cooked.

Run few spoons of oil now, if needed