Sorakaya Pesarapappu Curry Recipe | How to make Sorakaya Pesarapappu Curry | (bottle gourd moong dal curry)

Hi friends, thank you all visiting my website and @EATeasyvegrecipes youtube channel. Today's recipe is sorakaya pesarappau curry. Sorakaya or anapakaya is the name for bottle gourd. Sorakaya or Bottle gourd is low in calories and contains water. Sorakaya or bottle gourd is also richin dietary fibre and contains less fat and cholesterol. And also sorakaya keeps the body hydrated and cool in summers. Hence, it is the best option for weight lose journey. We can cook sorakaya or bottle gourd in many ways like curry, dal, pulusu or kofta curry. Lauki or sorakaya or bottle gourd is readily available vegetable all over India. The recipe which I am posting right now is Andhra style bottle gourd curry. This bottle gourd curry is for rice. Every 100Grms bottle gourd curry have 4% calories of our daily in take.
Check out for other sorakaya recipes here:
Sorakaya Vadalu
Lauki Kofta Curry
Sorakaya Ava Kura

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Sorakaya Pesarapappu Curry Recipe | How to make Sorakaya Pesarapappu Curry
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 10M
Cooking time: 15M
Servings: 6 People

Sorakaya pesarapappu curry for rice.

Ingredients:

• 5" Sorakaya/Bottle Gourd
• 1/4 Cup Moong Dal/Pesarapappu
• 3 to 4 Green Chillis
• Salt to Taste
• 1 Tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1 Onion(Optional)
• 1 Tbsp Oil
• 1 Tsp Urad Dal
• 1 Tsp Chana Dal
• 1 Tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 Tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 Red Chilli
• 5 to 7 Curry Leaves
• 1 Tsp Asafoetida

Procedure:

1. Soak moong dal/ pesara pappu for half an hour.
2. Peel and cut the sorakaya into 2" cubes.
3. Wash them and add water, salt and turmeric powder.
4. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
5. Once the pressure cools down, drain excess water.
6. Allow this to cool for a while.
7. Heat oil in a kadai, add chana dal and urad dal.
8. When the dals changing colour, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
9. Add asafoetida, slit green chillis and curry leaves.
10. If adding onions add them and saute.
11. Add soaked moong dal.
12. Sprinkle little water and cover and cook.
13. Cook the moong dal till is cooked 50%.
14. Once it is 50% done, add cooked sorakaya pieces.
15. Saute them till the moisture in the vegetable dries out.
16. Serve sorakaya moong dal curry with rice.