Bottle Gourd / Sorrakaya Pulusu

Recipe Source: My Mom.

Ingredients:

Bottle Gourd --- 1 small
Green Chilies --- 4
Onions --- ½ of the big one (if you have small onions just cut them horizontally into half)
Jaggery --- 3 pieces
Tamarind --- a lime size ball
Salt --- as per taste
Red chilly powder --- 1 – 1 ½ tsp (adjust)
Rice Flour --- 1 tblsn

For Seasoning:

Oil --- 1 tblsn
Mustard Seeds --- 1 ½ tsp
Cumin Seeds --- 1 tsp
Dry Red Chilies --- 1 halved
Hing --- a big pinch
Curry leaves --- 1 strand

Note:

Hing is not good for the pregnant ladies. So, avoid it if you are or if you making for any of them.

Process:

Peel and chop bottle gourd into big cubes. Add them to a pressure cooker directly.
Chop green chilies. Add them to the cooker.

Chop onions and add them too.

Add 3 pieces of jaggery to the pressure cooker.

Clean a lime size ball or tamarind.

Heat it in the micro wave for 30 seconds. Take 2 cups of tamarind juice out of it by pouring little more water. Add tamarind juice too to the cooker.

Add a pinch of turmeric powder, 1 – 1 ½ tsp of red chilly powder, and enough salt.

Mix well and pressure cook it for 3 whistles. Wait till the pressure goes off.

Heat a tblsn of oil in a big deep pan. Season it with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chilly, hing and curry leaves. Add the pressure cooked ones to the pan.

Take still more (around 4-5 cups) tamarind juice out of it by adding little-little water.

Add it to the pan.

Take 1 tblsn of rice flour. Mix with little water without any lumps. Add tht too to the pan.

Adjust salt.

Cook it for a boil.

Simmer it for about 15-20 minutes.

Have it with plain dal and rice by adding ghee.  Tastes wonderful.