Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bitter gourd gravy. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bitter gourd Gravy is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Bitter gourd Gravy is something that I have loved my entire life.

Bitter gourds are good for anti ageing,diabetes and blood sugar control. This is a tasty bitter gourd gravy that hides its bitterness. This tamarind based bitter gourd gravy is very easy to prepare and tasty too.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bitter gourd gravy using 18 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bitter gourd Gravy:

1. Make ready 4 Bitter gourd medium size
2. Get 1 ball Tamarind lemon size
3. Get 1 cup Toor dal
4. Prepare 1 tbsp Chana dal
5. Get 2 tbsp Raw ground nuts
6. Prepare 2 tbsp Grated coconut
7. Take 1 tsp Turmeric powder
8. Take 1/2 tsp asafoetida
9. Get 2 tbsp oil
10. Take as per taste Salt
11. Prepare to roast:
12. Prepare 4 Red chillies
13. Prepare 1 tbsp Chana dal
14. Make ready 1/2 tbsp Pepper
15. Prepare 2 tbsp Dhaniya
16. Get to temper
17. Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
18. Make ready 1 tbsp Kariveppilai

Bitter Gourd curry recipe is a special recipe There are also a few families who think that bitter gourd or any other vegetable when cut and cooked loses its nutrients and are best when eaten raw. Pavakkai Fry (Bitter Gourd Stir Fry) is a very tasty and healthy poriyal variety. Bitter gourd has lot of medicinal properties and it is very good for health. It is essential that you consume bitter gourd.

Steps to make Bitter gourd Gravy:

1. Soak the Tamarind in 3 cups of water for 10 minutes.
2. Cut the Bitter gourd into small cubes.
3. Boil the Thoor Dal and one tablespoon chanadal in pressure cooker.
4. Heat the kadhai and pour one tablespoon of oil. When it is heated up splutter the mustard and add curry leaves.Transfer the tempered mustard into another vessel.
5. Again in the same kadhai pour remaining oil and roast the ingredients one by one except the coconut.Transfer into plate and allow it to cool
6. Heat the same kadhai pour the tamarind juice.
7. Add turmeric powder and asafoetida and salt.
8. After it starts boiling add bitter gourd and groundnut.Let it boil till bitter gourd gets cooked.
9. Grind the ingredients given for roasting in a mixie in a coarse paste finally add the coconut. Add little water grind again.
10. After bitter gourd cooks add the grounded paste.Stir nicely.
11. After two minutes add boiled Thoodal.Stir again.Boil for three more minutes.Check the consistency.If it is too thick add water for getting gravy like kuzhambu consistency.Switch of the flame.Enjoy with hot rice with papad.

Bitter gourd in Tamarind Curry is a very good recipe to try by anyone. Bitter Gourd Pitlai - A traditional south Indian Brahmin recipe made with Bitter gourd and a thick lentil-tamarind gravy. Also known as Karela, Bitter melon. Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit. Gourd varieties like Ridge gourd, Bitter gourd and Snake gourd are some of the popular vegetables which can be very easily grown in the home garden.

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