Bottle Gourd With Lentils

This is a bottle gourd curry made with three types of lentils and some aromatics. I would actually like to show you the beautiful coriander flower used for decorating the dish. When I watch the Masterchef show, I love the way George delicately decorates the dish with all edible flowers with his famous tiny tweezer. I wish i had access to so many teeeny weeny edible flowers, so I could use the too.

Ingredients

1)
2 cups of bottle gourd chopped into small squares

2)
1/4 cup split pigeon pea lentil
1/4 cup split green gram lentil
1/4 cup split bengal gram lentil
All the above washed and ready to pressure cook

3)
1 tspoon finely chopped garlic
1 onion finely chopped
3 green chillies slit
1 small tomato chopped into small pieces
A pinch of asafoetida, a small spoon of turmeric powder

4)
A dash of lime juice, a sprig of fresh coriander for the topping, 6 cloves of garlic chopped into pieces.

Mix ingredients 1, 2, 3 together, put in two cups of water, a pinch of asafoetida, a small spoon of turmeric powder and pressure cook to three whistles.

Now for the tempering take little oil in a deep bottomed pan, add mustard seeds, let them splutter, add asafoetida, turmeric, add the chopped garlic, let it turn golden brown, add the pressure cooked ingredients, salt to taste, mix well, give it a boil, garnish with chopped coriander. eat with rice or roti.