Talking about them I had my friend's son come to visit me from Chicago & he had brought a friend from New Orleans that boy is an American boy, who also is visiting India in August just because he has come to know about the culture, tradition and food of course !! everything about India from his friends who are doing their engineering in Bangalore, which has impressed him a lot and wants to see India ASAP !!, He was saying that his friends told him that if you ever wanted to study then you have to study in India as people there, are very competitive and no nothing, but immerse themselves in education and want to top than the others !!. I wished a very Best of Luck to both of them and his tour to India be a very long lasting one in his memory lane !!,
Okay let me get back to my recipe thanks to Mrs.Prem for sharing me the recipe with me and hoping to add many more recipes from her cook book, & for this lovely dish i learnt from her, everybody in the house liked it, as I thought my eldest also said that some where it tasted like mango rice, that is when we mixed it with rice and ate it !! Like a Manga Saadham or Mango Rice.
BOTTLE GOURD DRY CURRY (MAURITIAN STYLE)
BOTTLE GOURD DRY CURRY (MAURITIAN STYLE)
Serves : 3 to 4
cooking time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 big Bottle Gourd
- 1 cup dry peanuts
- 2 to 3 pods of Garlic
- 1 Medium sized Onion
- 1 tbsp Jeera or cumin seeds
- 3-2 Red chillies (Guntur-Badgi)
- 4 to 5 tbsp of oil
SEASONINGS:
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tbsp channa dal
- 1tbsp urad dal
- 1 sprig of curry leaves
METHOD:
- Soak peanuts for an hour or so .
- Then with the other ingredients except for curry leaves grind everything with the nicely soaked peanuts into a smooth paste add little water if required and make it into a paste.
- Take a wok add 2 tbsp of oil and fry the ground paste in a low flame continuously stirring when you find it getting stuck to the wok add little oil until the raw smell goes out of them, Peanuts also give out oil so it might not be too difficult.
- I was adding little by by little oil and frying them in a low flame as I did not want to add too much oil, actually she asked me to fry with more oil as we do in gravies where the oil separate outs from the gravy. As I did not want to add more oil I did it like this.
- Meanwhile in a separate wok take 1 tbsp of oil, when oil is hot add all the seasonings one by one and curry leaves and then the cut Bottle Gourd and allow it cook in a low flame.
- Once when the Bottle Gourd is completely cooked add this fried Ground masala paste to it and mix it well, leave it in the wok for few more minutes so that the paste gets absorbed by the gourd and overall gives a good flavour.
- Now it is ready to serve with hot rice or as a side dish to anything you choose to eat it with !!.
NOTE: When cooking Bottle gourd do not add any water at all as the Bottle Gourd itself has so much water in it. and starts giving out water, when you are cooking the subzi, leave the subzi with very little water in it say around 2 tbsp of it so when mixing the gravy it combines quite well with the Gourd and then you can cook until the water is completely drained off, do not keep on mixing as the gourd might get smashed.
As I do not want to use lot of oil I thought next time when I am going to cook this dish I will fry onions, garlic,chillies cumin seeds first in a little bit of oil and then grind it with the soaked peanuts then I might use less oil !! or I will use already roasted peanuts in them but of course I think it wouldn't give the same taste as the original recipe !!.
I also thought I will try doing the same method cooking with other vegetables like Ridge Gourd & Chow Chow too. I think it will definitely taste good.
apoorva
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apoorva
Thank you for such wonderful
information.........If you are a Food Lover just
the way I am......Please check out the blog
mentioned below, some really yummy
recipes are out there !!!!.....Check it out m
sure you'll love it.
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Archy
Hey, nice curry with bottle guard !!
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Pooja
Wow this looks great! Unfortunately I dont get Bottlegourd here! Looks tempting 🙂
LG
Peanuts in veggies always add crunch and I love them. Looks good Jayashri. You can access recipe list on TOM here http://www.tasteofmysore.com/2007/06/tried-and-tested-fellow-bloggers.html
Regarding drop down menu list, I checked it and it was working! not sure what had happened when you were browsing 🙁
Superchef
thanks for stopping by my blog!! this is a great recipe..i make the same stir-fry with this veggie always..now a new one to try!
Usha
This sounds like such a delightful combination, I am looking forward to trying it.....
Mahimaa's kitchen
new dish to me... looks good J. should try.
Ramya Vijaykumar
My first visit here, you have a nice blog... bottle gourd curry looks very nice and tempting... Have blogrolled you, shall get back for more...
Chitra
its different and new to me..want to taste this:)
Madhumathi
Wow!A different curry with bottlegourd..Looks so yumm...
Asha
Looks delicious. Wish I could get Snake gourd as often here, love that veg! 🙂