Turai Moong Dal Recipe
Author: Gopi Patel
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Maharashtrian
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Serves: 2
- Turai (ridge gourd) : 1 cup
- Yellow moong dal : 1/4 cup
- Oil : 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
- Asafoetida (hing) : 1/4 tsp
- Ginger : 1 tsp
- Garlic : 1 tsp
- Green chili : 2 chilies slit
- Tomato : 1/3 cup
- Red chili powder : 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder : 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder : 2 tsp
- Cumin powder : 1 tsp
- Fresh coriander : 1 tbsp
- Salt : 1 tsp
- Peel off the turai/turiya and chop them into medium pieces.
- Wash the yellow moong dal and soak it in water for 10 minutes.
- Heat a pressure cooker and add oil in it.
- Once oil is hot add cumin seeds (jeera) and mustard seeds (rai) and let them crackle.
- Add finely chopped ginger and garlic in oil and saute for 30 seconds.
- Now add slit green chili in the cooker.
- Add tomatoes and saute for 20-30 seconds.
- Also throw in the chopped turai / turiya.
- Then add all the dry spices: turmeric powder, coriander powder, roasted cumin powder, red chili powder and salt as per your taste.
- Add water and mix the spices in sabji.
- Also add soaked moong dal.
- Turn off the lid and pressure cook the turai sabji for no more then 5-7 minutes (1 whistle).
- Let the cooker cools off before opening the lid of pressure cooker.
- Open the lid and give a quick stir to sabji using spatula.
- Garnish the turai moong dal sabji with fresh coriander leaves (hara dhaniya).
- Turai moong dal sabji is ready to serve. Serve this sabji along with roti, phula, jeera paratha and gajar sambharo.
Recipe by WeRecipes at https://werecipes.com/turai-moong-dal-sabzi-recipe/
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