sorakaya pachadi or bottle gourd chutney

Ingredients:

• 2 cups bottle gourd , chopped
• 1 piece ginger 
• 2 tsp chana dal 
• 2 tsp Urad dal 
• ½ to ¾ cup tomatoes 
• Tamarind  paste 
• 2 red chilies
• 3 green chilies
• Salt as needed
• 1/2 tsp turmeric

Seasoning

• 1 to 2 tsps Oil
• 1 Pinch hing

• ¼ tsp mustard
• 1 red chili ,broken 
• ½ tsp urad dal
• 2 crushed garlic cloves 
• 1 sprig curry leaves
• Tamarind paste as needed

Method:

1. Wash bottle gourd  Chop them to small pieces .
   

   
2. Heat a pan, dry red chilies, roast chana dal and urad dal lightly golden, add sesame seeds and cumin and toss. Make sure the sesame seeds are toasted well. Set these aside to cool.
   

   
3. Add little oil to the same pan and fry green chilies, set aside. Add bottle gourd , fry till they wilt off and the raw smell disappears. Set these aside separately to cool . To the same pan add tomato, salt and turmeric and fry till the tomatoes turn mushy. set this too to cool.
   

   
4. Powder finely the dals,green chilies and red chilies
   

   
5. Blend everything well. If needed adjust the salt.
   

   
6. Add little more oil to the pan, add crushed broken red chili,garlic, mustard, cumin and urad dal. Allow the dal to turn lightly golden. Add curry leaves , hing and tamarind paste.Fry till the leaves turn crisp.
   

   
7. Add the ground chutney and mix well.