This lauki chana dal is a nutritious, comforting curry recipe. Lauki is known as Sorakaya or anapakaya in Telugu. We make different varieties of recipes with this vegetable. It is good for health too.
It is a North Indian Punjabi style curry, the main ingredients in this recipe are Lauki or bottle gourd, chana dal (bengal gram). It is a flavourful recipe made along lauki and chana dal, added spices, tomatoes and chillis. It is served with rice or roti. I prefer to serve it with roti. It can be made in one-pot.
It is very easy to make. The recipe of Lauki Chana Dal can be made one-pot or even in pressure cooker. Lauki and soaked chana dal are first sauteed with tomato and onions, add ginger garlic paste and common Indian kitchen spices and then cook in a pressure cooker. Cooking in the pressure cooker would help in retaining the nutrients and also would increase the flavours.
Lauki or sorakaya is rich in nutrients, fiber rich vegetable. It is also low in calories, helps in weight management. It has rich water content keeps our body hydrated during summers. Fiber content present in sorakaya or lauki aids improving digestion, prevents constipation. Lauki may also helps in breaking down kidney stones and treating urinary tract infections.
Sorakaya can be made in South Indian style too, I would post different varieties of recipes made in South Indian style too soon.
Lauki Chana Dal | Sorakaya Senagapappu Curry
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Lauki / Sorakaya cut into byte size pieces
- 1 Cup Chana Dal/Senaga pappu
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- Salt to Taste
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
Ingredients For Tadka
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 red chillis
- 1/4 tsp asafoetida/Hing
- 4 or 5 curry leaves
Instructions
- Wash and peel lauki, cut into bite size pieces.
- Chop onions and tomatoes.
- Soak chana dal for half an hour.
- Heat oil in a pressure cooker.
- Add ingredients under Tadka.
- Saute them well and let the cumin starts spluttering.
- Add chopped onions and fry till they change colour.
- Add tomatoes and let them cook till turn mushy.
- Add salt, turmeric powder and saute them.
- Add soaked chana dal, lauki pieces too.
- Combine all of them well.
- Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala.
- Mix them well and add 2 cups of water.
- Pressure cook them for 3 to 5 whistles.
- Let the pressure goes off and cooker cools down completely.
- Mix them well and cook for another 3 to 5 minutes.
- The curry should cook well and it should be wet only, like a gravy curry.
- Serve lauki chana dal with rice or roti.
