Bottle Gourds in Curd
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped bottlegourd, skinned
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds or 1 teaspoon mustard paste
- 1⁄2 1/2 cup coconut paste or 1/2 cup milk
- 3⁄4 cup curds (preferrably not sour)
- 3 curry leaves
- 3 dried red chilies
- salt
- 1 tablespoon oil
directions
- Boil the bottleguards in water till they are tender.
- If using mustard seeds then wet them and crush them in a mortar add to the coconut and grind into fine paste.
- add this to the cooked bottleguards, stir well and mix them nicely crushing everything together for a time or two.
- Take off the fire and let it cool.
- When cold mix in the curd.
- heta oil in a small wok, crackle the curry leaves and the chillies and pour over the curd mix-- This can also be dione with beetroots-- the result is more colourful than this one-- it would give you a pink dip!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Nisha
India
I am a keralite married into a gujarati family...so the food is surely a main thing in my life...I LOVE to cook...its almost like an addiction with me, when i think of some recipe i simply MUST cook it...which is seldom possible...anyways...i have a crocodile for a hubby...always cranky...the only thing he like which i make are the idlis and the gulab jamuns...he couldnt find any faults with them till now...touchwood! this is me..."newly wed" in the kitchen at my in laws place...those happy days!(sigh)if i had a month off...i'd call up my best feinds over and cook for them...