Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal
Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chayote (chow-chow) dal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Dal and chow chow (chayote), when cooked together, give you a dish with wonderful texture and taste. The juicy pear-like chow chow softens and melds into dal, adding an interesting counterpoint to the dal's "porridginess". When I want to do a bit more with chayote than make an easy stew, I usually turn to this chow chow dal recipe. And most of the time I make this simple dal, though the recipe is easy but this dal taste very delicious.

Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chayote (chow-chow) dal using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal:
  1. Get 1 large - t seed Chow Chow - peeled and diced . Don ' add the in the middle !
  2. Prepare 1 Onions large - diced
  3. Get 1 Tomatoes - chopped
  4. Take 4 Green Chillies (depending on spice) -
  5. Prepare Cumin Seeds
  6. Get Mustard Seeds
  7. Take pinch Tumeric - a
  8. Prepare 1 tsp Chilli powder -
  9. Make ready 3 tsps Lime juice -
  10. Get Moong dal (Green dal)
  11. Make ready Oil
  12. Make ready to taste Salt
  13. Get Coriander - to garnish
  14. Take chayote Peel the and cut it into small pieces

Chayote is a vegetable that is easy to grow usually seen running along fences, over shrubs, and even straight-up trees. Chow chow or chayote is a pear shaped squash, light green in color and also called as vegetable pear. It is widely used in South Indian cooking and is also called as bangalore kathirikai or seemai kathirikai in Tamil. For lunch, I usually make this kootu or a simple chow chow poriyal to serve with rice.

Instructions to make Chayote (Chow-Chow) Dal:
  1. In a pressure cooker, add the diced chow chow, moong dal, onions,tomatoes, green chillies and tumeric
  2. Fill with water until the chow chow is submerged
  3. Cook it for 5 whistles
  4. Save some onins for later
  5. Once the pressure is gone, heat some oil in a deep pot
  6. Add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds
  7. When the mustard starts popping add the onions and chilli powder and saute for 2mins
  8. Next add the contents of the pressure cooker, mix well, add the required amount of salt and let it cook for 3mins
  9. Garnish with some freshly chopped coriander and serve hot with some rice

It is widely used in South Indian cooking and is also called as bangalore kathirikai or seemai kathirikai in Tamil. For lunch, I usually make this kootu or a simple chow chow poriyal to serve with rice. Its such a comforting meal and healthy too. Chow Chow Thakkali Kootu Recipe is traditional Tamil Nadu Style l entils cooked with chayote squash, tomatoes along with moong dal, with a coconut based masala. The freshly ground coconut masala adds a beautiful flavour to the kootu.

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