Bottle guard's peel chutney

I am sure this will be a different chutney for many of you!

Many of us use Bottle guard, Lauki as a vegetable in our day to day life.. and we peel it before we cut them into pieces... This chutney is made of the Lauki peel.

Do try this, it tasts good with Upma, Idli or any type of Parathas...

When you buy a bottleguard, make sure the outside peeling is clean and the fresh.

Peel off the outside cover of bottle guard and wash the peel in clean water. 

Keep it aside.

Ingredients:

The Ingredients

1 Cup Bottle guard peel - washed

2 tsp Chana daal

1 tsp Urad daal

Few curry leaves (8-10)

2 green chillies

Half tsp Jeera (Cumin seeds)

3-4 small pieces of ginger

Salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan.

2. Add Chana daal and Urad daal in the oil when heated. Let it get fried for few seconds.

3. Now add Ginger, Jeera and green chillies. Fry them for few more seconds.

4. Add the Curry leaves and the bottle guard peel.

5. Fry the entire content for some 3-4 mins until the peel is almost fried.

6. Put these contents in a mixer jar, add salt as per your taste and grind them to paste.

  

The chutney is ready to be served now!

Bottle guard peel chutney..