How to Prepare Quick Pudalangai Kootu / Snake-Gourd in Lentil stew

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pudalangai kootu / snake-gourd in lentil stew using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pudalangai Kootu / Snake-Gourd in Lentil stew:

1. Take 750 grams snake gourd Pudalangai /
2. Prepare 1 cup moong dal green gram dal /
3. Take to taste salt
4. Make ready 3 1/2 cups water
5. Make ready 5 - 6 curry leaves
6. Make ready 1 handfull coconut scrapings
7. Get 1 tsp cumin
8. Make ready 1 tsp black peppercorns
9. Take 1 chilly green
10. Take 2 tsps Saathumadhu/Rasam Powder(See note)
11. Make ready 2 tbsps rice flour
12. Take 2 tbsps milk boiled
13. Make ready 1 tsp Ghee
14. Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
15. Make ready 1 tsp urad dal white
16. Make ready 1 pinch asafoetida

Instructions to make Pudalangai Kootu / Snake-Gourd in Lentil stew:

1. Wash and chop the gourd and keep it in a vessel. To this add 1 cup of moong dal and add 3 cups of water to this or until the veggies and dal is submerged. Pressure cook this up to 4 whistles.
2. Take a blender jar and all the ingredients mentioned under 'the paste' and grind it to a smooth paste adding little water.
3. After the pressure releases, take the vessel out of the cooker, keep this on low heat. Add the paste and mix. Add 1/2 cup water, salt and add few curry leaves. Allow this to boil for 2 minutes, keep stirring this or else the bottom layer will burn and give a very smoky taste to the kootu.
4. Take a tadka pan on medium heat add ghee, mustard seeds, asafoetida and urad dal. Saute this until aromatic and add it to the kootu.
5. If the consistency of the kootu is too lean or runny, then in a small bowl add 2 tbsps of rice flour and 2 tbsps of milk and make it to a paste. Add this to the kootu. Allow it to boil for another minute and take it off the heat.

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