Aava pettina mukkala pulusu

Ingredients :

Bottle gourd -- 1 small , peel and cut into cubes

Drum stick -- 1 neatly cut into 2 inch pieces

Tamarind -- Lemon size , soak in water

Jaggery -- 1 small cube

Mustard seeds -- 2 tsp for paste, 1/2 tsp for seasoning

Rice -- 2 tsp

Cumin seeds -- 1/2 tsp

Fenugreek seeds -- 1/4 tsp

Oil -- 2 tsp

Green chillis -- 3 slit

Oninons -- 1/2 chopped

Tomato -- 1 small, chopped

Rice flour -- 2 tsp

water -- 3 cups

Salt -- to the taste

Asafoetida -- 1/4 tsp

Dry red chillis -- 2 tear and de-seed

Garlic pods -- 3 finely chopped

Red chilli powder -- 1/2 tsp

Corriander -- small cup ,finely chopped

Curry leaves -- few nos

Method :

1. Before starting , you need to soak 2 tsp mustard seeds and 2 tsp rice in water for 15 min

and grind it into thick paste and add oil 1 tsp into it and keep aside.[by adding oil,it avoids the paste to get bitter]

2.Heat a pan and add 1 tsp oil and add all the seasoning like mustard,cumin,asafoetida,fenugreek,curry leaves ,garlic pods and let them fry

3.now add onions and let them turn brown

4.Finally add bottle gourd cubes,drumstick,tomatoes,jaggery and slight water and let them cook for about 10 min

5.Now add the tamarind juice with the 3 cups of water,salt,corriander,red chilli powder and let it boil for abot 15 min

6.Now take the rice flour in a bowl and add little bit of water and mix into the stew to just thicken and cook for 5 more min.

7. Now remove from the flame and after 5 min add the mustard paste that we prepared previously.

Serve with hot rice and fryums.