Majjige huli
Majjige huli is a comfort food cooked in yoghurt along with other spices and vegetables. It is usually served as an accompaniment with steamed rice.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 kilogram ash gourd
- 1/2 kilogram yoghurt
For grinding
- 1 tablespoon bengal gram
- 1/2 teaspoon raw rice
- 4 green chilly
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- water
For seasoning
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- asafoetida
- curry leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon methi seeds
Other ingredients
- salt to taste
- water
Instructions
- Soak the rice and bengal gram in water for two hours.
- Remove the skin of ash gourd, cut it into pieces, pith and seeds are to be discarded.
- Take oil in a pan, add the mustard seeds, as it crackles, put asafoetida and turmeric powder, put the ash gourd pieces, curry leaves and some water. Let cook till tender.
- Grind all the ingredients to paste mentioned under "to grind".
- Whisk the curd and mix the paste to it.
- Now add the paste, salt and required quantity of water to it.
- Let boil for sometime.
- Majjige huli is ready to serve.
Notes
- Other vegetables as cucumber, potato or bhendi may be used. Method of cooking differs for each one.
- Ginger may be used while grinding, I do not use.
- Curds should be slightly sour. Do not use very sour or curds kept for a longtime. It imparts a bad taste to the food.
- Add water accordingly.