Bitter gourd (south Indian style)

• Servings: 4
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Frying time: 14-15 minutes.
• Total time: 25 minutes.

Sugar dilemma is already a big problem in India too, as a number of diabetes patients and people with obesity are on rise. It is suggested that have bitter gourd in your regular diet to fight against diabetes and obesity.

The recipe is for those people who want to add variation to increase the frequency bitter gourd consumption. I am uploading today the south Indian style of cooking in that I have used fresh coconut and curry leaves.

Take bitter gourd regularly is said to have glowing skin and also helpful in treating acne, it is a blood purifier agent. Enjoy this bitter gourd recipe.

Ingredient:

• Bitter gourd: 200 gm
• Onion: 2 no. (Medium)
• Fresh coconut: ¼ no.
• Raw mango: one forth (as per taste) You can use tamarind pulp instead of raw mango).
• Mustard oil: 3 -4 tablespoon
• Turmeric powder: half teaspoon
• Chilli powder: 1 teaspoon
• Coriander powder: 2 tablespoon
•  Salt: 1 teaspoon (as per taste)
• Sugar: half teaspoon (optional)
• Fennel seed powder: 1 tablespoon
• Curry leaves: 1 twig
• Mustard seed: ½ teaspoon
• Urad dal (Black split gram): 1 teaspoon
• Whole red chilli: 1 no.
• Cumin: ½ teaspoon

Preparation:

1. Wash and Trim the both ends of bitter gourd, cut into small pieces. Keep aside.
2. Chop onion. Keep aside.
3. Grate mango, keep aside.
4. Scrap coconut, keep aside.

Method:

1. Take a heavy bottom pan. Heat oil, add red chilli, mustard seed, cumin and split urad dal, when it turns brown; add a pinch of turmeric powder.
2. Drop chopped bitter gourd in to the oil, saute on high flame, Fry until half done, (about 5-7 minutes) keep stirring, add onion, stir fry for 2 minutes, add coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt, Fry till onion become light brown in colour. Add grated raw mango; curry leaves fry till vegetables are done.
3. Add scrapped fresh coconut; stir fry for 2 minutes, now Bitter gourd poriyal (south Indian style) is ready.
4. Note: heavy bottom pan works better. This is served with Steamed Rice or Dost Paratha.

Bitter gourd (south Indian style) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.