Snake Gourd (Pudalangai) Bonda Curry

A super simple and delicious curry made using snake gourd! Usually considered a boring vegetable, this recipe is sure to become a hit with even the snake gourd non-lovers...! This fry goes very well with sambar, rasam, mor kuzhambu or even curd rice....

Prep time: 15 mins Cooking time: 30 mins No. of pax: 2

Ingredients:

400 gms snake gourd (pudalangai)

1 tbsp Raw Rice

1 tbsp Channa dhal (Kadalai paruppu)

1 tbsp Toor dhal ( Thuvaram paruppu)

3 Red Chillies

1/2 tsp Mustard

1 tsp each of rice flour and besan flour

Salt to taste

Cooking oil for deep frying

Preparation:

Grind the rice, channa dhal and toor dhal coarsely and keep aside. These need not be roasted. Should be freshly ground.

Wash and finely chop the snake gourd. In a pan, heat 1 tsp of oil, add the mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add the 2 red chillies and fry for a few seconds. Then add the finely chopped snake gourd to this.

Add Salt to taste and keep covered for the snake gourd to get cooked. If the snake gourd is nice and tender, this would take about 5 - 10 mins. Once done, remove from stove top and let it cool for 5 mins.

On cooling, add the ground rice-dhal powder to the above cooked snake gourd and make round dumplings of the same.

While frying in oil, sometimes, the dumpling could fall apart. To avoid this, add 1 tsp of rice flour and 1 tsp of besan flour to the veggie while adding the rice-dhal powder.

In a deep frying pan, heat the oil, and fry the above dumplings in medium heat. Remove them, when they are golden brown. Crispy Pudalangai bonda curry is ready to serve with your favourite sambar, rasam or curd rice! This will be a sure hit dish and will spread your fame across the ton :-)

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