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\nRidge Gourd – In bite sized pieces………….. ……………Presssure-cooked toor dal and vegetable mixture<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n
Recipe<\/strong>: Toor dal <\/a>– 4 fistfuls (¾<\/em> cup) Take toor dal, vegetables (listed above), tamarind and turmeric in a pressure cooker. Add about two cups of water. Pressure-cook them til 3 whistles or until they turn soft. Wait until it’s safe to open the lid, then add salt to this cooked mix. With a wood masher, make a smooth paste of the cooked dal-veggies. At this stage, for a more soup kind of dal, add water to your liking, stir and bring it to a boil. (Do this step only if you add more water to the cooked-mashed dal. Otherwise it’s not necessary to cook the dal further.)<\/p>\n In a steel vessel, heat one teaspoon of peanut oil. Saut\u00c3\u00a9 the popu or tadka<\/i> ingredients until golden, then add the mashed dal-veggie paste from the cooker. Mix the dal with popu<\/i> ingredients thoroughly. Serve hot with rice and ghee.<\/p>\n Ridge gourd dal and curry with rice and ghee – my weakness and indulgence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone has their own food weaknesses. Mine has always been rice and dal. I loose my dietary control over this combination. I am a dal-holic.:) So, what did I do with ridge gourd purchased from ‘Lotus’ yesterday, I have ridge gourd dal. Simple yet divinely tasty when mixed with rice and ghee. Today, no portion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,63,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-beera-kaayaridege-gourd","category-toor-dal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor two for two meals<\/small><\/p>\n
\nVegetables:<\/u>
\nOne medium sized ridge gourd<\/a>
\nouter ridges peeled first and then cut into small cubes<\/small>
\nOne medium sized onion & 6 to 10 green chilli peppers –all finely chopped<\/small>
\nSeasoning:<\/u>
\n1 tablespoon of tamarind extract
\n¼<\/em> tsp of turmeric
\n½<\/em> tsp of salt
\nFor popu or tadka<\/i><\/u>: 1 tsp each of mustard seeds, cumin, urad dal, minced garlic and curry leaves<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Ridge](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/ridgegourd\/ridgegourdimagecopyrighted3.jpg\")
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