Pudalangai Kootu (Snakegourd Gravy). To begin making the Snake Gourd Kootu recipe, wash snake gourd, cut and remove the spongy centre part along with seeds. Pudalangai kootu is a south Indian side dish recipe made of snake gourd and dal along with coconut. This is served as side dish for steamed rice, rasam rice, chapatis and dosa.

Today's recipe, Pudalangai Kootu is a South Indian Lentil based Stew or Vegan Curry made with Snake Gourd. A vegetable and lentil loaded side dish recipe that is served with Sambar or Rasam and steamed rice. This is a No Onion No Garlic Curry recipe, quite popular and most loved of all Kootu recipes. You can have Pudalangai Kootu (Snakegourd Gravy) using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pudalangai Kootu (Snakegourd Gravy)

Prepare 200 gms of Snake gourd(Pudalangai).
Prepare 50 gms of Moong dal.
You need 50 gms of grated coconut.
It's 3 of red chilies.
You need 2 tablespoons of jeera, salt.
You need 1 tsp of perungayam powder, urad dal, curry leaves.

There are quite a few varieties of pudalangai kootu and the popular one is this poricha kootu. Here, the pudalangai is mixed up with split moong dhal and spruced up with coconut paste and other spices. It tastes delicious with puli kuzhambu and kara kuzhambu, where the non-spicy kootu combines with the tangy puli kuzhambu or the spicy kara kuzhambu to give a tantalizing effect to your taste. Pudalangai Kootu is made using snake gourd and chana dal which is a traditional side dish from Tamil Nadu.

Pudalangai Kootu (Snakegourd Gravy) step by step

First cut the vegetable into ring shaped pieces. Then add a cup of water and bake it..
In a mixer grinder prepare a paste with red chilli, jeera, grated coconut, perungayam powder..
Add this paste to boiling item. Then add the baked Moong dal.
Allow to cook for 10 minutes. Then the Kootu is ready..
In a pan add urad dal, jeera and curry leaves and fry with cooking oil. Add this mixture to Kootu..
The dish is ready to taste..

You can make kootu either using chana dal or moong dal. One which we make with chana dal is dry version. Moong dal version will be of semi-gravy consistency. Wash and chop Snake gourd into small pieces. Grind the items given under "To grind" to a smooth paste.