Sunday special - Chundakay Sambhar, Padavalangay thoran,

Hello,

Having a great weekend? Sundays are special. Try something new today. For lunch I made Chundakay sambhar, snake gourd curry and chow chow kootu. I have already posted chow chow kootu. So today I will share with you Chundakay Sambhar and Sanke gourd curry.

We grow chundakay and manathaklli in our kitchen garden in village.. Yes I have a few manthakalli plants in my terrace garden. 

Chundakay sambhar

Ingredients

Chundakay - 1 cup (Smash the berry with a coconut!)

tamarind - a gooseberry size

tuvar dal - 1/4 cup

sambhar powder - 1 tbsp

Hing powder - 1/4 tsp

For the tadka

Ghee - 2 tsp

mustard seed - 1 tspmethi seed - 1/2 tsp

curry leavs - a few

Method of Preparation

Wash clean remove stem from chundakay and smash it using a coconut or use mortar and piston.. Extract tamarind pulp by adding hot water to the tamarind. Wash soak tuvar dal. In two separate vessels cook smashed chundakay, in a small cup you can keep tamarind also. In another vessel keep tuvar dal, add turmeric powder and sufficient water. Keep it in pressure cooker for 2 whistles. Remove from cooker and pour into an earthern pot. In this order first chundakay with cooked water, then tamarind extract, then goes cooked tuvar dal. Now add a tbsp of sambhar powder, mix well allow the sambhar to boil by adding salt. In a small pan pour ghee add mustard seed and methi seed, allow mustrad to splutter. Now add hing powder,  curry leaves  red chilly. Pour it over the boiling smabhar. Off the stove. Serve it with freshly made rice and padavalangay curry.

Padavalangay thoran(snake gourd)

Ingredients

Padavalangay - 2

Green chilly - 1

Grated coconut - 1 tbsp

Curry leaves - a few

salt - as required

For frying

Sunflower oil/ coconut oil - 1 tbsp

Mustard seed- 1/2 tsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Red chilly - 1 (broken)

Method of Preparation

Wash and remove seed from snake gourd and cut into small pieces. In a mixer add coconut, green chilly, and coarsely grind. In a heated pan pour oil add mustard seed, allow it to splutter add urad dal and broken red chilly. Add chopped snake gourd add turmeric powder and salt, In high flame allow it to cook till soft and tender. Now add coconut paste and curry leaves. Serve hot.