Sorakaya attu: The best accompaniment for steamed rice served with a dollap of ghee.. , a spicy South Indian dish: A blog post with suggestions on what to have with your rice.

 Bottle gourd also known as, aanapakaya, Lauki, white guard, trumpet guard, in various regions.

 Many types of curries are made with bottle gourd. Some of the curries I have written on my blog can be found here. bottle gourd curry -1 

Bottle gourd curry -2

 Dosas are also made with bottle gourd. They are also good as breakfast and evening snacks. But, the recipe I'm going to share here goes well with rice. Apart from that, it is very tasty as a snack.

Ingredients:

Bottlegourd - 1

Urad dal - 1 cup

Asafoetida ( hing) - 1 tsp

Green chilies- 6 or per taste

Salt - as required

Oil - 1 tbsp

Method :

1.Firstly soak the urad dal for 1 hour. Take skin less urad dal to soak quicker.

2.Grind the soaked urad dal finely by adding asafoetida and salt. Set aside.

3.Remove the skin of bottle gourd with peeler.

4.Cut them finely.

5.Chop the green chilies as well.

6. In a vessel, combine the  chopped bottle gourd,green chilies with urad dal batter thouroughly.

7.Heat a tava and pour and spread the batter slightly thicker than a batter spread for dosa. The method of making this dosa should be like Utappam.

8.Add a spoon of oil around the dosa . Cook for 2 to 3 minutes until the bottom the dosa turns golden brown.

9.Now flip the dosa for 2 to 3 minutes.

10.Drizzle 1 more spoon of oil around the dosa.

11.Serve with steamed rice.

12.Cut a slice of this dosa and eat it with rice.

 Sorakaya attu or aanapakaya attu is a delicious Indian side dish that goes well with rice. The recipe is simple but tastes miles better once prepared. A recipe worth trying out at home! Let us know what you think. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out  at Home Cooking Empire. Thank you for reading, would love to hear from you!

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