• Snake Gourd 1/2 kilo, 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
• Ginger-garlic paste 1 spoon
• Fennel seeds 3 spoons
• Salt
• Turmeric 1 pinch
• Oil few spoons

Method:

1. Soak a cup of chana dal in water for about 20 minutes. Then grind the same along with fennel seeds, dry chilies, ginger and garlic. Set this aside.
2. In a pan, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, curry leaves, chana and urad dal. Let them pop and splutter well.
3. To this add green chilies and snake gourd. Fry well. Add salt and 1 pinch of turmeric powder. Sprinkle little water overt this. Cover and cook.
4. When it is 3/4th cooked add wet ground chana paste and cook with out a lid. Let the paste be done completely. Toss to all the sides…until it gets fried.
5. Run few spoons of oil now, if needed.