Breakfast

Quick breakfast up for serving. Follow these simple breakfast recipes and make it interesting for everyone every single morning.

SCD Recipes

Grain-free, starch-free, & sugar-free, easy to make healthy & tasty recipes without using any processed food items.

Appetizers

Lip-smacking snacks & appetizers for any party, get-together, holidays & festivals.

Main Course

Variety of vegetarian & non-vegetarian recipes ranging from simple to exotic dishes.

Desserts

Collection of delicious desserts ranging from authentic traditional desserts from across the country to some innovative new recipes.

Side Dish

Scrumptious side dishes varying from tasty & healthy daal, curries, chutneys & raita.

Toor Daal Lauki Curry

January 29, 2018

A delicious and totally nutritious, ONE of a kind daal! Lentils are a rich source of protein and when combined with green veggies like bottle gourd (lauki), adds extra nutrition and taste to the dish. It is a great way to include vegetables to your kids diet as they don't get to see the actual veggies. I personally prefer to make these kind of daal/curry as they are big on time-saving and are easier for me to feed my kids a healthy wholesome meal.

It's a regional recipe from Andhra Pradesh (India) that involves specific cooking style i.e. Jain cooking which basically eliminates the usage of onion and garlic, thus making it super easy to cook. Just boil daal (lentils), add tempering and serve it with hot steamed rice or chapati, along with some pickle and salad. The rich taste from ghee and aroma of fresh curry leaves, hing and methi add a zing to this dish. What can be better than this for a busy weekday dinner or a lazy weekend lunch !!

Toor Daal Lauki Curry

A delicious & nutritious daal/curry, that is packed with protein and vitamin.It's a regional recipe that involves specific cooking style i.e.jain cooking.

Prep Time

5 Minutes

Cooking Time

20 Minutes

Serving

Ingredients

1/2 cup Toor daal (pigeon peas washed & soaked)
3 cup Chopped lauki (bottle guord)
2 Chopped tomato
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Turmeric
2 tbsp Ghee (clarified butter)
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds (sarson)
1/4 tsp Cumin seeds (jeera)
1/4 tsp Urad daal
1 Red chili
3 Chopped green chili
1/4 tsp Methi seeds (fenugreek)
1/4 tsp Hing (asafoetida)
10-12 Curry leaves
1.5 cup Water

INSTRUCTIONS

In a pressure cooker add daal, chopped lauki, tomatoes, salt, turmeric and water. Cook on medium flame until 3 whistle and then on low flame for 10 minutes.
Heat a pan, dry roast methi seeds until it changes its color and is aromatic. Crush it into coarse powder with the help of mortar & pestle.
Heat ghee in the same pan, add mustard seeds, let it crackle then add cumin seeds, urad daal, red chili, methi powder and hing.
Add curry leaves and green chili and pour this tempering in daal, mix well. Serve with steamed rice or chapati.