Bitter Gourd Curry

Name: How to cook Bitter Gourd Curry - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Rosalyn_Kitchen

Bitter Gourd Curry

#flavour3 Week 3 Bitter/Sour #rosalyn_kitchen

Ingredient

2-3 tbsps

Tamarind Paste or 1 cup Tamarind Extract

1 Cube

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Firstly, Wash the bitter gourds nicely. Cut into thick round slices. Remove the seeds. Add it to a bowl. Add salt. Mix well and set aside for 30 minutes. This reduces the bitterness of the bitter gourd and absorbs the salt. If you like the bitter taste then you may skip this step.

* Step 2

Keep all the ingredients ready for dry roasting.

* Step 3

Take a pan and dry roast all the ingredients mentioned under "Roast and Grind". Roast on low flame until it turns aromatic.

* Step 4

Remove the skin of the peanuts.

* Step 5

Allow the roasted ingredients to cool completely.

* Step 6

Transfer the cooled roasted ingredients to a blender and blend into a fine powder and set aside.

* Step 7

After 30 minutes of resting, squeeze off the bitter gourd juice so that it's bitterness is reduced.

* Step 8

Heat oil in a pan. Add the bittergourd slices and fry it till light golden and crisp. Remove from pan and set aside.

* Step 9

In the same pan, heat some more oil, if needed. Add mustard seeds and allow it to crackle. Add urad dal, chana dal, cumin seeds, asafoetida and dried red chillies and allow it to splutter.