Turai Moong Dal Recipe
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Maharashtrian
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Serves: 2
 
Turai Moong Dal Recipe - A delicious curry made from ridge gourd (turai/turiya) and yellow moong dal.
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Peel off the turai/turiya and chop them into medium pieces.
  2. Wash the yellow moong dal and soak it in water for 10 minutes.
  3. Heat a pressure cooker and add oil in it.
  4. Once oil is hot add cumin seeds (jeera) and mustard seeds (rai) and let them crackle.
  5. Add finely chopped ginger and garlic in oil and saute for 30 seconds.
  6. Now add slit green chili in the cooker.
  7. Add tomatoes and saute for 20-30 seconds.
  8. Also throw in the chopped turai / turiya.
  9. Then add all the dry spices: turmeric powder, coriander powder, roasted cumin powder, red chili powder and salt as per your taste.
  10. Add water and mix the spices in sabji.
  11. Also add soaked moong dal.
  12. Turn off the lid and pressure cook the turai sabji for no more then 5-7 minutes (1 whistle).
  13. Let the cooker cools off before opening the lid of pressure cooker.
  14. Open the lid and give a quick stir to sabji using spatula.
  15. Garnish the turai moong dal sabji with fresh coriander leaves (hara dhaniya).
  16. 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/