Sorakaya Bajji

Ingredients

• • Sorakaya/Bottle gourd (peeled and cubed) - 1
• • Onion (chopped) - 1
• • Tomato (cut finely) - 1
• • Onions (finely cut) - ¼ cup
• • Turmeric powder - 2 pinches
• • Green chillies - 6
• • Tamarind paste - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • Jeera - 1 tablespoon
• • Salt - as required
• • Oil (for seasoning and frying) - as required
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Methi seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Urad dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 1 teaspoon

Ingredients For Garnishing

• • Coriander leaf - 1 small bunch

Method

• 1. Scrape outer skin from bottle gourd and cut into small pieces.
• 2. Add cut chillies, onion, tamarind extract, salt, chilly powder and pressure cook for 10 minutes.
• 3. Once fully cooked add tamarind paste and roughly mash tomato and sorakaya mixture. Do not make it into fine paste.
• 4. In a pan heat the remaining oil and add mustard seeds, jeera, methi seeds, curry leaves and onions and let them fry till onions get golden brown color.
• 5. Now add the onion mixture to the mashed sorakaya and tomato mixture.
• 6. Adjust salt and tamarind paste.
• 7. Add seasonings and garnish with curry leaves before removing from fire.