Bottle Gourd Olan.

Ingredients:

Bottle gourd 1 small (skinned, deseeded & chopped)
Thoor dal 1 cup (cooked)
Fresh coconut grated 1/4 cup
Green chilies 3-6
Milk 1 cup
Cumin seeds 1/2 spoon
Salt
Oil 2 spoons.

For sesonning:

Mustard seeds 1/4 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Curry leaves few
Oil few spoons.

Mehtod:

In a blender blend, cooked thoor dal, coconut, cumin, chilies and milk togather and set aside.

In a vessel, heat oil. Add the vegetble. Add salt, cover and cook over medium heat.

Let the vegetable get semi done with its own water content.

Now add th ethick wet-ground paste from the step 1. Cover and cook for few more minutes.

In a seperate handi, heat oil and toss th esesonning items and run this over prepared above ‘olan’.

Treat this a side dish for South Indian Meals.