Ingredients:
- Ash gourd: 500gm
- Garlic paste: 1 teaspoon
- Red chili: 1-2no.
- Mustard oil /cooking oil: 3 tablespoon
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
- Chili powder: 2 teaspoon
- Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
- Mustard seed: one forth teaspoon
Preparation:
- Peel off skin of ash gourd and deseed; chop into big and thick slice.
Method:
- Take fry pan, put oil, when it smokes, add mustard seed and red chili.
- Sputter few seconds, now put sliced ash gourd and garlic paste.
- Cover the fry pan. Lower the flame.
- Cook on minimum flame until it becomes soft.
- Add coriander powder, chili powder, salt and turmeric powder.
- Stir it; fry till oil separates from masala.
- Stir it occasionally, now ash gourd is cooked properly, put off the flame.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
Ash gourd is used as brain food.
It is highly nutritive vegetable, which is used in various ways.
Ash gourd (winter melon) ki sabji by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.