Bottle Gourd AKA Lauki (in Hindi)
Notice: Spoon measurement : 6ml heaped
Ingredients:
Directions:
Serves 2.
Ingredients:
- 1 spoon small yellow Mustard seeds (Aka Sarson in Hindi).
- 1/2 spoon Cumin seeds (Aka Zeera in Hindi).
- 8 Black Pepper corns (Aka Kali Mirch in Hindi).
- 9 cloves Garlic (Aka Lesun in Hindi).
- 2 medium Green chillies (Aka Hari mirch in Hindi).
- 1 spoon Coriander powder (Aka Dhania in Hindi).
- 1/4 spoon Turmeric powder (Aka Haldi in Hindi).
- 1/2 spoon Salt.
- 1 medium Onion.
- 1 Bottle Gourd of length 25cm, and width 18cm.
- 3 spoons Oil for frying.
Directions:
- Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, Black Pepper corns, Garlic cloves, and Green chillies need to be ground together to form a fine paste. Readymade powders/pastes won't do. Freshly ground pastes have different tastes.
- Bottle Gourd and Onion needs to be chopped finely in tiniest pieces.
- Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a non stick bowl, put in the spice paste and fry til it gets light brown.
- Add onions and salt, and fry til Onions get golden brown.
- Add Bottle Gourd and fry til its gets tender (you should be actually able to break a piece with the slight press of the spatula).
- Add water such that the bottle gourd gets covered till top. Let it boil on the simmer gas till the curry thickens. Taste the curry, and check for the consistency.
- Serve hot with boiled rice.
Serves 2.
Total Comments 4
Comments
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Nice article.
I generally don't make a paste as in step 1, just put in all together and voila! Lazy bachelors you know.
Posted 05-06-2012 at 08:15 PM by PrinceCruise 
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There is a great taste difference between putting it all together
and grinding it on the spot.Posted 05-06-2012 at 10:40 PM by Aquarius_Girl
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I understand that. There is always a obvious difference between the gf's and my dish.
Posted 05-08-2012 at 03:59 AM by PrinceCruise
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Edited spoon measurement.
Posted 07-04-2014 at 01:31 AM by Aquarius_Girl
