How to Prepare Delicious Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special

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How to Prepare Delicious Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special. Peerkangai chutney is prepared with ridge gourd, coconut, red chillies and tempered with mustard & small onions. This chutney is an easy dish for idli and dosa. Just saute the chopped ridge gourd, red chillies and asafoetida and then grind it with fresh coconut and tamarind.

This kootu is more like turai dal but without any onion or garlic.

I have explained the meaning for the word kootu on my cabbage kootu post.

It means - "combine" or "mix" or "add" or "adding." Welcome.

You can have Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special

  1. It’s 500 gms of Bottlegourd.

  2. Prepare 5 of red chillies.

  3. You need 2 of ts salt, urad dal, mustard, perungayam powder, oil.

  4. Prepare 10 gms of soaked tamarind.

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Ridge gourd is known as Beerakaya in Telugu, Peerkangai in tamil and Turai in Hindi.

This vegetable is commonly available in India and can be prepared in many ways.

You can make dal, stir fry, gravy, kootu, even chutney with its skin (thole thogayal) etc.

Peerkangai thokku (Bottlegourd chutney) - South Indian special instructions

  1. First fry all the ingredients except bottle gourd in a pan with small amount of oil..

  2. Peel the bottle gourd and fry it in the pan..

  3. In a mixer grinder grind it into smooth paste..

  4. Thats all. Thokku is ready to taste..

Today we will learn how to make ridge gourd thogayal following our easy recipe.

Peerkangai Eral Thokku is one of the best sea food side dish for Sambar Rice, Rasam Rice, variety Rice, Idli, Dosa, Chappathi.

Do try this recipe at home and share it.

A simple gravy which goes well with rice.

Though we call the gravy as chutney.