Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Bitter gourds : 2 medium size
Onions : 2
Tomatoes : 2
Green chillies : 6
Garlic : 3 pods (1+1+1)
Salt : 1/4 tspn + 1/2tspn
Sugar : 1 tspn
Coriander seeds : 2tspns
Sesemam seeds : 1/2tspn
Coconut : 1 Tbspn
Tamarind : black berry size
Coriander leaves : 5 sprigs
Oil : 4 tspns (2+2)
Ingredients For Tempering :-
Oil : 1 tspn
Dry red chillies : 2
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tspn
Mustard seeds : 1/4 tspn
Asafoetida : 1/8 tspn
Curry leaves : 1 sprig
Preparation :-
- Chop bitter gourd as fine as possible. Chop onions , tomatoes , green chillies and garlic pods.
- Heat a pan add 2 tspns of oil and when hot add 1 chopped garlic pod.
- Next add finely chopped bitter gourd , add 1/4 tspn salt and fry till golden brown . Then add sugar and fry for 5 more minutes and switch off stove.(Dont worry adding sugar doesnt make your chutney sweet it only reduces the bitterness of bitter gourd)
- Heat another pan and dry fry coriander seeds and sesemam seeds. Once done add green chillies and fry till done . Transfer them into a mixcy container .
- In same pan add 2 tspns oil and when hot add 1 garlic pod , onions and fry till done .
- Then add tomatoes and tamarind and fry till mushy . Switch off stove and let this cool.
- In mixcy container add coconut and 1/2 tspn salt and grind along with the green chilly mixture to a coarse paste .
- Then to the mixcy container add onion tomato mixture , 1 garlic pod and coriander leaves and grind to a chutney consistency without adding water.
- Transfer the grinded chutney to a serving bowl and to this add fried bitter gourd and mix well.
- Make tempering by adding a teaspoon oil and when hot add dry red chillies , cumin and mustard seeds . Then add asafoetida and curry leaves. Switch off stove and pour this tempering on chutney and mix well .
- Serve this with hot rice and ghee.
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i m satvika newly married and new to US ...obviously new cooking by own...firstly i want 2 congratulate u for a nice blog...gud recipes...especially for a pakka andra style..i hav tried few recipes it came out very gud...but for brinjal recipes i finding difficult in compelete cook of brinjal and smell...my fav veg is brinjal but after coming here it has changed bcoz of its smell n d way of taste compared 2 indian brinjals..can u suggest me something for making comple cookingi mean purthiga udakatam ledu.......
cheers,
preethi
i tried out bitter gour chutney.. it came out very well. Thnq so much..
You have a lovely website.
The way you explain the recipes step by step is wonderful.
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I'm loving it :)
Wish u a long journey.