Sorakaya Gujukura (Bottle Gourd Curry)
Sorakaya Gujukura (Bottle Gourd curry)
Tasty with chapathis, ragi rotas, jona rotas even with bread. Wonderful with rice or millets as main or side dish and nutritious too. It is a vegetble that has cooling properties so good for pitta type of bodies.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Rice
- 1 cup Corriander Seeds
- 15 Cloves
- 5 Small Pieces Cinammon
- 1 Big Bottle Gourd
- 5 tsp Oil
- 1 Big Onion
- 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 3/4 tsp Salt
Instructions
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Take a pan and fry the rice, corriander seeds, cloves and cinammon on a slow flame till they emit a nice smell keep stirring continously. Then grind them and store in a bottle.
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Take the gourd wash peel the skin and cut into medium pieces, cut the onion also into small pieces.
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Now take a pan add oil and seasoning(mustard and cummin 1/2 tsp each, urad and channa dal 1 tsp each and 7 curry leaves) and let splutter then add onion pieces and fry till translucent add bitter gourd pieces salt, turmeric and salt and fry for sometime.
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Now add water and cover with a lid and cook till the gourd is cooked now add 2 to 3 tbsp of the ground powder, add it little by little stirring so it does not form lumps.
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Cook for 5 to 6 minutes and switch off, garnish with corriander leaves and serve with rice or chappathi.
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You can also make this curry with ridge gourd or pumpkin also with snake gourd also. Very tasty and creamy curry.
