Pudalangai poricha kootu

Pudalangai Poricha kootu:-

Ingredients:

1 medium sized snake gourd, washed and cut into pieces
1/2 cup yellow moong dal
1 tbsn scraped coconut
1/2 tspn pepper corns
1/2 tspn jeera
salt to taste

to garnish:
1 tsp ghee
1/2 tsp channa dal
1/2 tsp urad dal
1/2 tsp jeera
1 sprig curry leaves(karuveppilai)

Wash the dal and snake gourd, add a 1/4 tsp turmaeric powder and keep in the cooker with  water just enough to  cover the dal and  vegetable.
Switch off after two whistles.

Grind the coconut, peppercorns and jeera to a smooth paste.

 Open the cooker and take out the veg and dal.

Add the coconut paste, salt and  let it simmer  for 5 minutes.
Heat the ghee in a pan and  fry the channa dal and urad dal one by one.
Switch off and add the jeera and  curry leaves.
Add it to the kootu and switch off and serve hot
This makes a great side dish with rasam and steamed rice and ghee.
I love to eat this with hot rice and ghee  with avakkai or lemon pickle  and appalam.

Pudalangai poricha kootu