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      This is one of the easy recipes I learnt from my SIL here in SG. This is very very easy to prepare,yet makes an wonderful accompaniment for sambar rice or any other rice dishes.So I wanted to blog this recipe for long time. All the recipes I learnt from her are delicious but made with less effort! Try this with any stuffed parathas too,it would be nice…

Ingredients:

Ash gourd/poosanikai/white pumkin – grated	1 cup
Curd	1/2 cup
Salt	as needed

To grind

Coconut,grated	1/4 cup
Green chillies	3 - 5
Jeera/cumin seeds	1/2 tsp
Water	as needed

To temper

Oil	1 tsp
Mustard	3/4 tsp
Urad dal	1 tsp
Curry leaves	1 sprig
Asafoetida	2 pinches

 

Method

1. Remove the seeds and centre soft part of the ash gourd and peel off the skin too. Grate it.
2. Take it in a microwave-able bowl and cook for 4 minutes in high. Make sure you stir in between twice.
3. Grind the items given under ‘To grind’ table to a smooth paste and mix it with the cooked ash gourd.
4. After cooled down,mix in the curd.
5. Temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table and mix well.

Serve as an accompaniment for rice! We had it with Poondu kuzhambu,Paruppu thogayal…blissssssssss. Notes

You can skip the microwave part and have it raw. You can also sauté the grated ash gourd stove top,instead of microwaving!