(Bottle gourd/ Lauki in Tomato)

A simple, light and delicious recipe made with tomatoes, can be eaten with puri or roti or can be had just like that as a soup. We can easily substitute kaddu with any other vegetable like potato, turai.



Ingredients
1 cup Kaddu/ Lauki/ Bottle Gourd, cut in quarters
2 tomatoes
1 inch ginger
1 green chili
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp red chili powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
handful curry leaves
a pinch hing
1 tbsp oil
salt to taste
2 cups water
coriander leaves for garnish

Method

1. Grind tomatoes, ginger and green chillies together.
   
2. Heat oil in a pressure cooker,add hing, mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Let them splutter. Add the curry leaves
   
3. Reduce heat, add the coriander powder, red chili powder and turmeric powder. Cook for a minute taking care not to burn them.
   
4. Add the tomatoes. Cook till the oil separates.
   
5. Add the kaddu salt and water.
   
6. Close the cooker, and cook till done about 2 whistles.
   
7. Once the pressure releases, open the cooker and boil or add water according to the required consistency. This is a very watery gravy but you can thicken it by boiling away the excess water.
   
8. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.