Lauki chana daal curry / Bottle guard chickpeas curry

Ingredients:

• 1 small lauki / bottle guard(cut into small pieces)
• ½- cup chana daal / split chickpeas
• 1-medium size potato(cut into small pieces)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1-cup nutrela (soya chunks)
• 1-tsp cumin seeds
• 1 medium onion
• 1- medium size garlic
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 tbs curry powder 
• 1- tsp coriander powder
• salt to taste

Instruction 

• Soak chana dalal and nutrela in hot water for 3-4 hours.
• Make the paste of onion, garlic and tomato.
• First fry the nutrela in the pan and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and let it crackles, add onion and garlic. cook until the paste starts leaving the pan and oil comes up.
  
• Add lauki, chana daal, potato, nutrela and all the dry powder in it and add 1/2 cup of water and pressure cook for 2 minutes. 
• Now lauki chana daal curry is ready, Serve hot with chapatis.

Linking this to Any One Can Cook: Series 38, Taking a timeout on Thursday # 13 , Tastetastic Thursday #18,  Priya's  "Veggie/Fruit" event  and hosting by Raji .