Ingredients:

• 3 – Brinjals
• 1/2 – Pudalangaai (snake gourd)
• 1/2 – Vellarikaai (cucumber)
• 1/2 – Vazhaikaai (raw banana)
• 1 – Red Chilli
• 1/2 tsp – pepper
• 1 cup – moong dal/toor dal
• Salt to taste
• Hing – a pinch
• 1/4 tsp – Turmeric powder
• For Seasoning:
• 1 tsp – mustard
• 3 -/4 tsp – Urad Dal
• 1 tsp – oil

Method:

1. Pressure cook the dal and smash it and keep it aside.
2. Finely chop all the vegetables and keep it aside.
3. Heat some oil in pan and add pepper and red chilli and fry till the pepper starts to sputter. Add these to the mixer.
4. Grind the above ingredients to a fine paste.
5. In the pan, add the chopped vegetables and add water and turmeric. Let the vegetables cook for some time.
6. When the vegetables are half cooked, add the ground paste and required salt.
7. Let the mixture boil for some time till all the vegetables are cooked completely.
8. Now add the smashed dal and stir it well. When the molagutal starts to boil, remove from flame and pour it in a vessel.
9. In a separate pan, heat some oil and add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to boil, add urad dal and fry until it turns to golden brown colour.
10. Add the seasoned ingredients to the molagutal.
11. Now the delicious veggie molagutal is ready to serve with hot rice.
12. Recipe courtesy: Subbu’s Kitchen.

Recipe courtesy of Subbalakshmi Ranganathan