Bottle gourd in curd

Enjoy this super-fast and healthy bottle gourd curry.
Ingredients
250gms Bottle gourd cut into 2cm pieces
1/3 cup Coconut
1/2 cup Curd
3 Green chilli
½ tsp Turmeric powder,
Salt
¼ tsp pepper

Temering
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp of mustards seeds, ½ tsp of cumin seeds
1 whole red chilli broken to pc
¼ tsp of fenugreek seeds
Curry leaves few

Method
Grind coconut and green chillies into a paste adding little water.

Pressure cook the bottle gourd with ¼ cup water for 3 minutes. Remove from flame and slowly release the pressure with help of a spoon. Open the cooker, add the ground coconut paste, curd, turmeric, pepper and salt. Put it back on medium flame, cook till the curry thickens stirring occasionally.

Tempering: Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, when crackling add red chilli, fenugreek seeds and curry leaves. Stir for few seconds & pour this over the curry.

Serve hot with steamed rice.
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