Bitter Gourd Salad

Bitter gourd (Karela) salad is stir fried crispy spicy tangy salad blended with goodness of coconut, spices.

• Maintain diabetes
• Maintains cholesterol
• Good for skin, hair & eyes
• Helps in weight loss.
• Boosts your immune system
• Great for your eyes.

Bitter gourd cooking is for the strong hearted. To make it palatable and at the same time attractive, it takes accuracy, finesse and of course, a bit of creativeness.

• Deseed 2 large bitter gourd and chop them into small pieces. Add salt, mix and keep aside for 30 minutes.

• To remove bitterness squeeze it nicely to remove all the water & stir fry in oil on non stick pan.

• In a mixer, grate 1/2 coconut along with 5 red chillies , small tamarind & salt to make dry masala.

• In a container add two finely chopped onions, fried bitter gourd & dry masala.

• Stir fried crispy spicy bitter gourd salad is ready.

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Mango Curry

Mango the king of fruits is one of the most tasty, nutritious tropical fruit loaded with goodness of Vitamin E, beta carotene and serve as strong antioxidant.

Mango Curry is made with not-so-sweet mangoes blended with spices, jaggery and green chilies to give it a unique taste.

Lip smacking curry absorbs all the flavors from the seasoning and it turns into an amalgamation of myriad tastes.

• Peel the skin of 8 sweet sour mangoes.

• In a sauce pan add oil and splutter 1/2 tbsp mustard seeds. When they start popping, add 1/2 tbsp urad dal, 5 curry leaves, 5 red chilies.

• Add peeled off mangoes, 1 tbsp jaggery, salt, 1/2 cup water, 1 tbsp grated coconut.

• Close the lid and cook for 5-6 mins for mangoes to absorb all the flavors till we get thick spicy gravy.

• Divine flavourful Mango curry is ready.

Papad Curry

Potato Song

Potato Song is bright red colored thick curry which derives the color from heat inducing red chillies.

Dish has unique taste & flavour due to perfect blend of ingredients like spicy chilly, sweet coconut, tangy tamarind.

Serve it on lazy weekend afternoon with rice / roti / bread for a quick meal.

• Boil 2 cups of potatoes, peel and cut into big pieces.

• In a pan, stir 3/4 cup of grated coconut till it turns just reddish.

• In a mixer, grind grated coconut with 1 tbsp coriander seeds, 8 red chillies and 1/2 tbsp tamarind to make smooth masala paste.

• In a pan, heat oil and fry 1/2 cup of chopped onions till they turn translucent.

• Add boiled potatoes, masala paste, salt, water and cook till the gravy is thick.

• Potato Song is ready.

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