Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
This video is about how to prepare bitter moong dal with Lauki and karela. This lentil soup widely prepared in Eastern Indian and known as Tetor dal. In this video I am sharing how to make titar dal.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd:
- Prepare 1 cup split yellow/moong daal
- Prepare 1 karela/bitter gourd thinly sliced
- Take 2 dry red chilies
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Get 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- Make ready 1 cup lau/lauki/bottle gourd peeled and diced
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon radhuni/ wild celery or mustard seeds
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Take 2 tablespoons mustard/cooking oil
- Take 1 teaspoon sugar
Tetor Dal Lau Uchhe diye Bhaja Moong Dal is a traditional Bengali nutritious lentil soup to soothe stomach in brutal heat of Indian Summer. This nutritious lentil soup is also known as Bengali style Bhaja Muger Dal Uchhe diye or Moong lentil with Bitter & Bottle Gourd. The fresh, soft and tender bottle gourd is the favorite vegetable in Bengali households during summer. In this dish, the skinless and split yellow lentil is the main ingredient and the chopped bottle gourd is the add Dry roast the moong dal till it turns golden brown and you feel the aroma of the roasted dal.
Steps to make Moong dal with bottle gourd and bitter gourd:
- Dry roast the moong daal for 5-8 minutes till the lentils turn brownish in colour.
- Was the moong daal properly and pressure cook along with the bottle gourd pieces.
- Take a pan and heat oil in it. Now, add the bitter gourd and fry them. After the frying is done, keep the bitter gourds aside.
- Temper the oil with radhuni, red chilies and bay leaf. (In case radhuni is not available mustard seeds can be used)
- Now, add the cooked lentils to the pan along with the fried bitter gourds, salt, sugar, grated ginger and turmeric powder.
- Simmer the daal till you achieve the desired consistency.
- Serve the daal hot with steamed rice.
Lightly spiced moong dal and ridge gourd combination is a match made in heaven. Very nurturing to the body and soul. A quick and delicate dal tempered with radhuni, a type of seed that is quite unique to Bengal. This is also different from the Lau diye Tetor Dal (dal made with gourd and bitter gourd) in terms of the tempering used—plus this is very quick and very easy to make. Moong Dal Tadka is a simple Indian dal made with split petite yellow lentils.
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