Peerkangai Paal kootu - (Ridge Gourd cooked in milk)- recipe posted on demand from Vaish

You can try this recipe, this is very tasty kootu/curry which my mom makes, goes well with rice and you can try this with chapathi also. My mom scrapes off the outer portion/skin of the ridge gourd and makes a chutney out of it and that is yummm... So basically the entire ridge gourd is used up.

Ingriedients:
Ridge Gourd- 1
Onion- 1 medium size onion chopped
Garlic- 2 pods chopped
curry leaves
chilli powder
turmeric powder
salt to taste
milk - 1 cup (boiled cow milk).
for seasoning- oil, mustard, uradh dhal, channa dhal

Method:
           Scrape the outer part/skin of the ridge gourd , trim the edges and cut into small cubes. In a pan add 2 2 spoons of oil and heat it, add mustard and when it starts cracking add the uradh dhal and channa dhal. when dhal is fried add the curry leaves, garlic and onions and fry until the onion is cooked.And then add the ridge gourd salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric, chilli powder as required and stir it for 2 mins. Then add little water and close the pan tight so the ridge gourd gets cooked. Open the pan and when the ridge gourd is cooked add 1 cup of milk and boil it till the gravy thickens and switch off.