Bitter Gourd Curry
Bitter Gourd Curry

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bitter gourd curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bitter Gourd Curry is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Bitter Gourd Curry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Bitter gourd is used to make stir fry, chips, curry, pulusu/ stew, pickles and even to make pakora. I am sharing a simple bitter gourd curry recipe that can be served with plain white rice, brown rice, millets and even with chapati. A spicy bitter gourd or karela vegetable preparation, bitter gourd curry is a typical South Indian recipe. The bitter gourd is easy to prepare and quite healthy, especially for diabetics.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook bitter gourd curry using 24 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bitter Gourd Curry:
  1. Get Dry Roast and Grind (Spice Powder)
  2. Make ready 2-3 tbsps Peanuts
  3. Make ready 2 tbsps Sesame Seeds
  4. Make ready 1 tsp Chana Dal
  5. Take 1 tsp Urad Dal
  6. Make ready 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  7. Prepare 1 tsp Coriander Seeds
  8. Take 1/4 tsp Methi Seeds
  9. Take 6 Dried Red Chillies
  10. Get Other Ingredients:
  11. Prepare 2 Bitter Gourds
  12. Get 3 tbsps Oil
  13. Prepare 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
  14. Take 1 tsp Urad Dal
  15. Prepare 1 tsp Chana Dal
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
  17. Take Pinch Asafoetida
  18. Make ready 3 Dried Red Chillies
  19. Get 1 Onion (Chopped)
  20. Prepare 2 tsps Ginger Garlic Paste
  21. Take 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
  22. Prepare 1 tsp Salt
  23. Take 1 tbsp Tamarind Paste or 1 cup Tamarind Extract
  24. Take 1 Cube Jaggery or 1 tbsp Jaggery

Home » Curry » Spicy Bitter Gourd Curry. Fresh spice paste made with coriander, onions and coconut adds lot of flavor. Kakarakaya aka bittergourd/ bitter melon/ karela as the name suggests has a bitter undertone. It has a cucumber/ melon like texture.

Instructions to make Bitter Gourd Curry:
  1. Firstly, Wash the bitter gourds nicely. Cut into thick round slices. Remove the seeds. Add it to a bowl. Add salt. Mix well and set aside for 30 minutes. This reduces the bitterness of the bitter gourd and absorbs the salt. If you like the bitter taste then you may skip this step.
  2. Keep all the ingredients ready for dry roasting.
  3. Take a pan and dry roast all the ingredients mentioned under "Roast and Grind". Roast on low flame until it turns aromatic.
  4. Remove the skin of the peanuts.
  5. Allow the roasted ingredients to cool completely.
  6. Transfer the cooled roasted ingredients to a blender and blend into a fine powder and set aside.
  7. After 30 minutes of resting, squeeze off the bitter gourd juice so that it's bitterness is reduced.
  8. Heat oil in a pan. Add the bittergourd slices and fry it till light golden and crisp. Remove from pan and set aside.
  9. In the same pan, heat some more oil, if needed. Add mustard seeds and allow it to crackle. Add urad dal, chana dal, cumin seeds, asafoetida and dried red chillies and allow it to splutter.
  10. Add onions and ginger garlic paste and saute it well.
  11. Add in the fried bitter gourd slices, turmeric powder and salt and saute it well.
  12. Now add in the prepared roasted masala powder and saute it lightly.
  13. Add in the strained jaggery water and tamarind paste and mix well. Adjust the consistency as required.
  14. Cover and boil until oil separates and is seen at the surface of the gravy. You can garnish with coriander leaves for additional flavor.
  15. Bitter Gourd Curry is ready. Serve it with hot steamed rice or roti and bitter gourd fry.

Kakarakaya aka bittergourd/ bitter melon/ karela as the name suggests has a bitter undertone. It has a cucumber/ melon like texture. Bitter gourd curry in tamarind gravy / karela curry is a very tasty curry. Since there is a blend of tamarind, bitterness of the gourd is completely lost. Karela (Bitter Gourd) are really bitter and an acquired taste.

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