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Snake gourd recipe is a delicious & easy sabzi made with snake gourd and bengal gram (chana dal).
Ingredients
for soaking chana dal
2 tablespoons chana dal (bengal gram)
⅓ cup hot boiling water
other ingredients for snake gourd bhaji
2 cups chopped snake gourd (padwal or chichinda)
1.5 tablespoons oil - peanut oil or sunflower oil can be used
½ teaspoon mustard seeds (rai)
½ teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
7 to 8 curry leaves - whole or chopped
1 green chili - chopped
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
1 pinch asafoetida (hing)
salt as required
1 cup water or add as required
3 tablespoons fresh grated coconut - can also use desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
Instructions
preparation for snake gourd bhaji
Firstly rinse 2 tablespoons chana dal and then soak them in ⅓ cup hot water for 30 minutes.
Rinse and then peel 1 snake gourd. Cut the snake gourd in two or three pieces horizontally. Now take each cylindrical piece and cut it vertically from the center in two pieces. Remove the seeds and pith and discard them.
Now slice in 2 to 2.5 inches pieces. You will need 2 cups of chopped snake gourd. Also chop 1 green chili. Keep aside.
making snake gourd bhaji
Heat 1.5 tablespoons oil in a shallow frying pan or kadai. Lower the flame and then add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds.
Let the mustard seeds crackle.
Then add ½ teaspoon cumin seeds.
Stir and let the cumin seeds also crackle.
Then add chopped padwal, 7 to 8 curry leaves (whole or chopped) and 1 green chili (chopped). Mix well.
Add ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder and 1 pinch asafoetida (hing). Mix again.
Drain all the water from the soaked chana dal and then add the chana dal. Mix well.
Add salt as per taste.
Add 1 cup water.
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