Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Potlakaya Thalimpu

Potlakaya Thalimpu.

You can have Potlakaya Thalimpu using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Potlakaya Thalimpu

1. Prepare 1 sliced of Snake gourd.
2. It's 1 sliced of Onions.
3. Prepare 5 pods crushed of Garlic.
4. You need as needed of Curry leaves.
5. Prepare as required of Salt.
6. You need as needed of oil.
7. You need 1 tsp each of cumin,mustard seeds.
8. Prepare of For spice powder:.
9. Prepare 2 spoons of Chana daal / bengal gram.
10. It's 1 spoon of Dhaniya / coriander powder.
11. Prepare 3 of red chillies for spice.
12. It's 3 spoons of dry coconut.

Potlakaya Thalimpu instructions

1. Wash the snake gourd and remove the seeds inside. Cut them into 1 inch pieces as shown in the pic. Slice the onions. The quantity of onions should be half of the amount of snake gourd. Crush the garlic pieces. Fry all the ingredients for the spice powder except dry coconut in a spoon of oil until golden colour. Cool it down and grind it into a coarse powder..
2. Into a pan, add 2 spoons of oil, and add mustard seeds, jeera, crushed garlic and curry leaves. Now add in the sliced onions and fry for a minute. Then add in the sliced snake gourd/potlakai and fry. The onions should get fried along with the snake gourd and should be crunchy..
3. Add required amount of salt and fry until snake gourd is cooked. Now add in the grounded spice powder and mix well and sauté for 2 minutes. Serve it with hot rice and a spoon of ghee..