Bottle Gourd curry I Sorekayi palya a side dish for chapati

Preparation Time : 20 min Cooking Time : 15 min Serves : 4

Bottle gourd curry is a healthy and delicious side dish, a coconut based curry tasty curry to serve with roti’s/chapati/ akkirotti/dosa’s . It’s a simple and easy to make recipe prepared with bottle gourd, and simple spices, a healthy way to eat veggies to start your day, every vegetable has it’s own set of nutrients and our body needs them in one form or the other, just try and enjoy. 

Ingredients:

Bottle gourd/Sorekayi – 1 medium peeled and chopped

Onion – 2 or 3 no’s chopped

Green chilies – 2 no’s slit

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder – 3/4 tsp

Chilly powder – 3/4 tsp

Salt

Oil – 3 tbs

To grind –

Coconut – 1 cup grated or chopped roughly

Poppy seeds – 1/2 tsp

Cashew nut – 6 (whole)

 

Method:

Peel Bottle gourd, cut in the middle, remove the seed part, chop it to medium size pieces , immerse in water and set aside, keep all the other ingredients handy.

Add coconut, poppy seeds in a mixer jar, make a dry powder until it gets powdered, then add cashew nuts , add enough water, blend it to a fine paste and keep ready.

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Heat a pressure pan by adding oil in it, when it is hot add onion, green chilies fry until onion turns to translucent, add ginger garlic paste, fry until the raw smell evaporates.

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Add all the dry powders, fry for a while

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Add chopped Bottle gourd, stir fry for 1 min, add 1/2 cup of water and salt stir, close the lid of the pan, pressure cook it for 1 whistle, once done remove from the flame.

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When the pressure settles by its own, open the lid bring the curry to boil, add grounded paste into it, combine add little water, bring it to boil check the salt add if necessary.

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Boil the curry for 5 min, remove from the flame, add chopped coriander mix with the curry

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Serve hot with chapati or any breakfast dishes.

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Note –

This curry taste great if it is mild spicy, Always prefer to add a small quantity of spices in preparing this curry.

You can also add 1 chopped tomato which is optional.

 

 

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