Ingredients:
• 1 – tender Snake gourd
• 1/4 – coconut, ground
• 5-6 – Green chillies
• 2 – Cloves
• 2 inch – Cinnamon
• 1 tsp – Urad Dal
• 1 – Red Chilli
• 1/2 tsp – Jeera
• 1/2 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil
Method:
- Cut snake gourd into 3/4 inch pieces.
- Mix it with a little salt and after keeping for a while, squeeze out the water.
- Heat 2 tsps oil in a kadai and add urad dal, jeera and mustard seeds and red chilli.
- Once dal becomes slightly red put curry leaves and snake gourd pieces.
- Place a lid on top and cook for 5 minutes.
- Make powder with cloves, cinnamon, green chillies, coconut.
- Add this mixture into the snake gourd and continue cooking for another 5 to 10 minutes on slow fire without the lid.
- Serve the curry with rice.
Recipe courtesy of Chiranjeevi