Ingredients:
- Bottle-gourd skin - Peeled from around 1 & 1/2 lb bottle gourd
- Green chili- 3
- Onion (chopped)- 2 Tbs
- turmeric powder- 1 pinch
- Cumin powder- 1/2 ts
- Salt- 1/2 ts to taste
- Egg- 1 (if you want you can skip it)
- Coriander leaf (chopped) - 1 Tbs
- Oil- 1/2 Tbs
Procedure:
- Take some water in a pan, put the bottle-gourd skin, the green chili and salt in it and boil them until the skin become soft. Then turn off the heat and keep it aside to cool down.
- Then make paste of the boiled skin and green chili using a mortar & pestle or a chopper.
- Heat the oil in a pan. Add the chopped onion and fry them until they become soft. Then add the paste, cumin powder and stir them to mix.
- Fry them for 2 minutes, then add the egg and stir continuously to mix the egg with the paste (if you want to skip egg, discard this procedure.).
- Fry the whole mixture until all the water evaporates from it. Then spread the chopped coriander leaf and turn off the heat.
- Enjoy the mashed bottle-gourd skin with white rice.
Ingredients:
- Bottle gourd- 500gm
- Shrimp-10-12
- Onion paste- 6 ts (you can use around 1/2 cup chopped onion instead
of onion paste )
- Garlic paste-2 ts
- Cumin powder -3/4 ts
- Turmeric powder-1ts
- Green chili paste- 1 ts or to your taste (you can use 5-6 pieces
stilted green chili instead of paste)
- Salt- 1 ts or to taste
- Oil- 1/4 cup
- Cilantro (chopped)- 2 Tbs (optional)
Procedure:
- Wash the bottle gourd, peel it and then cut it around 1/2 inch slices. And wash the shrimp and set them aside.
- Pour oil in a pan and heat it in a medium heat. Add onion paste, garlic paste, green chili paste, turmeric powder, cumin powder and salt in the oil one after another, and stir them. Stir the masala around 3-4 minutes or until oil starts to separate from the masala. Then add the shrimp and bottle gourd pieces and stir them to mix with masala. Keep this in medium heat for around 10 minutes (stir them occasionally).
- After that add around 1 & 1/2 cups of warm water in it and bring it to a boil. Then cover the pan, lower the heat to medium low and cook them around 15-20 minutes or until the bottle gourd become tender.
- Now spread the chopped cilantro over the curry and let the curry simmer in low heat for 1-2 minutes.Then turn off the heat. Your curry is now ready to serve.
Ingredients:
- Bottle gourd(লাউ)-1 (around 1 and 1/2 lb)
- Onion-1 large(chopped)
- Turmeric powder-1 ts
- Green chili-7-8 pieces or your choice(slited from middle)
- Oil-around 6 Tbs
- Salt-1 ts or according to your taste
Procedure:
- Peel and wash bottle gourd. Chop thinly.
- Heat oil in a pan. Add onion and fry until tender. Add green chili and stir. Add chopped bottle gourd and stir. Add turmeric powder and salt. Stir thoroughly to mix all of them.
- Cover the pan with lid. Cook around 10 minutes in medium heat or until tender. Remove the lid and fry another 3-4 minutes.
- Remove from the pan and serve.
