Bittergourd Curry

Ingredients

• • Bitter gourd - ¼ kg
• • Onions - 2
• • Tamarind - small lemon size
• • Turmeric powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Salt - as required
• • Jaggery/Sugar - as required
• • Oil (for frying) - as required

Ingredients For Frying In Oil And Then Grinding Together

• • Bengal gram dal - 1 ½ tablespoons
• • Red chillies - 10
• • Garlic - 3 flakes
• • Onions (small, peeled) - 3
• • Coconut (dry, grated) - 2 tablespoons

Method

• 1. Chop onions finely and bitter gourd into ½ inch pieces.
• 2. Soak bitter gourd pieces in the water in which rice is washed, for half an hour. (This removes bitterness from gourd)
• 3. Wash well and cook in thin tamarind water with little turmeric and salt.
• 4. When gourd is soft to touch drain water completely.
• 5. Heat little oil and fry bengal gram, red chillies, coconut.
• 6. Add garlic, onion at the end and fry for a minute. Grind to smooth paste, with little water.
• 7. Heat oil in a deep frying pan and fry chopped onions and bitter gourd together in medium flame for a longtime stirring constantly till gourd changes its colour.
• 8. Add ground paste, jaggery, salt.
• 9. Fry well and remove from fire.