Main Ingredients

2 cups soaked kabuli chana (white chick peas)

1 cup peeled and chopped bottle gourd (doodhi / lauki)

2 tbsp oil

2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)

1 bay leaf (tejpatta)

1 tsp chilli powder

1/2 tsp dried ginger powder (sonth)

1/4 cup chopped coriander (dhania)

salt to taste

1 cup roughly chopped tomato

1/4 cup milk

To Be Dry Roasted and Powdered

2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)

4 tsp coriander (dhania) seeds

4 whole dry Kashmiri red chilli , broken into pieces

5 clove (laung / lavang)

3 to 4 black peppercorns (kalimirch)

3 cardamom (elaichi)

1 ? stick cinnamon (dalchini)

1 tbsp dried pomegranate seeds (anardana)

For The Garnish

2 tbsp finely chopped coriander (dhania)

lemon wedge