- Servings: 2
- Preparation time: 10-12 minutes.
- Frying time: 12 minutes.
- Cooking time: 5 minutes.
- Total time: 29 minutes.
Bitter gourd helps to maintain sugar level in the body especially in tropical Indian climate. Today is the recipe from classic Maharashtrian delicacy, loaded with rich protein from peanut & sesame seed. The recipe is for that person who wants variety in bitter gourd, Relish the taste…
Ingredient:
- Bitter gourd: 150 gm
- Onion: 1 no. (Medium)
- Fresh coconut: 4-5” pieces
- Cooking oil: 3 -4 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder: half teaspoon
- Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
- Salt: 1 teaspoon (as per taste)
- Sugar: half teaspoon (optional)
- Fennel seed powder: 1 tablespoon
- Sesame seed: 1 tablespoon
- Peanut: 1 tablespoon
- Mustard seed: ½ teaspoon
Preparation:
- Dry roast peanut, discard the skin of peanut, ground and make powder, keep aside.
- Dry roast sesame seed, ground and make powder, keep aside.
- Wash and Trim the both ends of bitter gourd, cut into 2-3” pieces, again cut these pieces longitudinally, keep aside.
- Chop the onion. Keep aside.
- Scrap coconut, keep aside.
Method:
- Take a heavy bottom pan. Heat oil, add fennel seed and mustard seed, sputter few seconds; add a pinch of turmeric powder, and put chopped onion stir fry for 2 minutes on high flame till get translucent, add bitter gourd, saute on medium flame, cover for few minutes(~4-6 minutes).
- Cook until half done add coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt, peanut, and sesame seed powder. Add scrapped fresh coconut and sugar; stir fry for 2 minutes, now Karela (bitter gourd) Marathi style is ready to serve.
- Note: heavy bottom pan works better. This is served with rice or paratha.
Karela (bitter gourd) Maharashtra style by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.