Bottlegourd Moong Dal Curry

I visited my friend in New York a few months ago. She made a curry by cooking beans and moong dal together. It was very tasty, and given that my husband loves Andhra food I had to take the recipe from her. One day as usual as while I was thinking of what to cook using bottlegourd, I decided to cook it the way my friend cooked beans. My family loved it and have been making it often since then.

Ingredients:
Bottlegourd: 1/2  finely chopped(The ones here in US are huge, 1/2 suffices for my family of four, I use the other half to make chutney, about which I will blog later)
Moong Dal: 1 cup
Medium sized onion: 1 cut length wise
Ginger Garlic paste: 1 tbsp
Corriander powder: 1 tsp
Green chillies: 2 finely chopped
Curry Leaves: 4-5 
Hing: 1/4th tsp
Oil: 2 tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder: 1/2tsp

Procedure:
1. Pressure cook the moong dal and bottle gourd together.
2. In a pan, heat the oil. Add mustard and cumin seeds. When they start sputtering add curry leaves, green chillies, ginger garlic paste.
3. Now add the onions, and fry till they are transparent.
4. Add hint, corriander powder, turmeric powder and salt. Cook for a while.
5. Now add the bottle gourd and dal mix to this. Simmer for another 3 to 4 minutes.
Serve hot with rice or chapatis.