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 Moong Dal With LAU (LAUKI) :YELLOW LENTIL WITH BOTTLE GOURD. A very old and traditional bengali recipe. Mostly prepared during summers , it is said that this dal keeps the body cool and prevents us from heat. This is a very light to stomach recipe with minimum ingrediants. INGREDIANTS:  Moong Dal : 100 gms Bottle gourd :  1 (small) Mustard oil : 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds : 1 tsp Dry Red Chilliess : 2  Bay Leaves : 2 Green Chillies(optional) : 2 Coriander Leaves : 2 tbsp Sugar : 1 tsp Salt : According to taste. METHOD :  Fry the dal or lentil slightly and then boil it in a kadai till it is cooked properly or you can pressure cook it as I do it to reduce the. cooking time and save gas too. Cut the Bottle gourd into big cubes. To pressure cook the dal properly add around 300 ml water to 100 gms of dal. After 1 to 2 whistle add thecut gourd, salt and green chillies(optional) . If required add hot water at this time. Now wait till 1 whistle comes. when done keep it aside. ...

 Everything is available in this world at a click of a button on our mobile, be it grocery, clothing, food, furniture etc.Impulse buying is a common behaviourial problem these days. Resisting the craving of impulse shopping is difficult but not impossible. I too am fighting the same battle as many of you who are struggling with the habit of unnecessary buying. Hankering or impulse buying is related to unhappiness and anxiety, and controlling this would improve our psychological health. I shall share few tips which I adopted to come out of this web of impulse buying. We need to understand What motivates us to buy any object? Question your shopping with logic . Do you really need it? We need to understand the need and want of that particular object we wish to buy. Mostly people who are very much active in the social networks wish to look better and picture perfect, be it garments,shoes, makeup, etc or home  decoration stuff, kitchen stuff etc.  My first suggestion would be ...