Name: Pavakkai Pitalai Recipe
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Indian

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Pavakkai pitalai is a delicious Indian recipe served as a Side-Dish.

How to make Pavakkai Pitalai Recipe

Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Crawler

Indian

<p>Pavakkai pitalai is a delicious Indian recipe served as a Side-Dish.</p>

large pavakkai/bitter gourd

chickpeas/garbanzo beans

size of lime tamarind

cooked red gram dal/tur dal

mustard

black gram dal

a few curry leaves

a few cilantro

Asafoetida

Salt

jaggery/brown sugar

grind: coriander seeds

and1/2 Bengal gram dal/channa dal

red chillies

grated coconut

Fry in a tsp of oil the ingredients that are to be ground and grind to a paste. 

step 1

step 2

 Dissolve the tamarind in water and extract the juice. 

step 3

 Cook the vegetable in the tamarind water, adding half a tsp of sambar powder, asafoetida and salt. 

step 4

 Add the chickpeas when the vegetable is half cooked and continue to boil it until the pavakkai is cooked. 

step 5

 Now add the ground paste and cooked dal and continue to boil until the sambar thickens. 

step 6

 If needed, a little bit of rice flour can be dissolved in water and added to make the pittalai thick. 

step 7

 Add the jaggery/brown sugar and mix well. 

step 8

 Season with mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves and asafoetida. 

step 9

 Garnish with cilantro and serve hot with rice. 

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step 11

Bawarchi