Ingredients

• 1 - pavakkai (bitter gourd), cut into round slices.
• 1 cup - tur dal, pre cooked.
• tamarind - lemon sized.
• asafoetida - a pinch.
• 1.5 tbsp - sambar powder.
• 2 or 3 - green chillies.
• 1/4 tsp - turmeric powder.
• salt to taste.
• To garnish: coconut gratings.
• 1/2 tsp - mustard.
• 1 tsp - urad dal.
• 1/4 tsp - cumin.
• curry leaves.
• oil to fry.

How to Make Pavakkai Pittlai

• In a kadai, heat a little oil and fry pavakkai well and keep them aside.
• In a wide vessel, add tamarind to water with salt and turmeric powder and allow to boil. When boiled, add asafoetida and sambar powder and give another boil.
• Then add the pre cooked tuvar dal and boil. Now sambar is ready.
• Then in a little oil, fry mustard, coconut, urad dal, curry leaves, jeera till coconut becomes red. Add this to the sambar. Also add the pre-fried pavakkai.
• The hot pittlai is ready.