Health for life

I cant imagine my life without dal based gravies,especially the kootu. Kootu served with rice topped with ghee and fried papads are my all time favourite. In case if i run out of veggies or if i have veggies abundantly,ill quickly make kootu with it. Few days back, i prepared this fabulous,comforting kootu with bottlegourd,mushroom and peanuts. Peanuts gives an excellent nuttiness to this usual kootu and both bottlegourd and mushroom works out wonder in kootu.Give a try friends, am sure this kootu will definitely satisfy your tastebuds.Sending this kootu to my event CWS-Peanuts and Vijis SYSW Series - Bottlegourd & Fenugreek Seeds.



1cup Bottlegourd pieces
1/2cup Mushroom
1/4cup Peanuts (raw)
1/2cup Channa dal
1/4cup Moongdal
1no Onion (chopped)
2nos Tomatoes (chopped)
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
2nos Green chillies (slit opened)
1/2tsp Garam masala powder
1tbsp Lemon juice
Few curry leaves
1tsp Mustard seeds+urad dal
2nos Dry red chillies
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
Oil
Salt

To grind:
2tbsp Grated coconut
1tsp Cumin seeds

Grind the coconut and cumin seeds as fine paste and keep aside.

Take the washed channa dal, washed moongdal, chopped tomatoes, bottlegourd pieces, chopped mushrooms,raw peanuts with turmeric powder,enough water and salt in a pressure cooker.

Cook upto three whistles.

Once the whistle get released, add the coconut-cumin seed paste, garam masala powder and slit opened green chillies to the to the cooked veggies-dal..

Bring everything to boil(add water if needed).

Meanwhile heat enough oil, let splutters the mustard seeds, urad dal, dry red chillies and asafoetida powder.

Add the chopped onions and curry leaves, sauté until the onions turns slightly brown.

Add this onions and tempered spices to the cooking dal.

Finally add the lemon juice and put off the stove..

Enjoy with rotis & rice..

I cant imagine my party menu table without a curry or a gravy, obviously ill go for something with paneer coz any curry or gravy prepared with paneer goes prefectly awesome along with rice dishes or else with rotis as well.Am here with an interesting combo for a kofta curry, yea you are rite these deep fried koftas are prepared with both finely grated bottlegourd and paneer. I know this combo may works out prefect, seriously this is a rocking combination and you guys have to give a try to this combo if you are planning to make a kofta curry next time.

Coming to this kofta curry, it goes awesome with any kind of pulao, a prefect side dish to enjoy along with a mildy spiced pulao.You can feed easily both the veggies and paneer this way to your teddies, you can mix and match the veggies with paneer to make this kofta curry. Mostly koftas are prepared with mashed potatoes along with the veggies, here in this curry i completely skipped it.This is my 4th post for this week of blogging marathon with occasional as theme.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.




For Koftas:
1cup Grated Bottlegroud pieces
1/2cup Paneer (grated)
3tbsp Besan flour
1tbsp Rice flour
1tsp Ginger garlic paste
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/2tsp Garam masala
Salt

Mix both grated bottlegourd pieces and salt , keep aside.

Grated bottlegourd pieces may leave some water,strain the water (keep the bottlegourd water aside, you can use it while making gravy).

Add all the ingredients to the bottle gourd pieces,mix well and make small balls.

Deep fry this koftas until its turns golden brown and keep aside..