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Bottle gourd raita

Bottle gourd raita

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bottle gourd raita

Sorakkai thayir pachadi is an easy dish to make in less time. The main ingredients we have used here are yoghurt and bottle gourd only; both are coolant. So this is a good summer food.

Bottle gourd Health benefits: Bottle gourd has plenty of nutrients, also rich in fibre; It promotes weight loss as well, helps to reduce hypertension without a doubt. When it comes to medicinal benefits it treats urinary problems. Apart from this, bottle gourd keeps the body cool and refreshing. Especially it is low carb veggie. So this dish can be used as a whole food for weight watchers.

Let’s see how to make it.

Cuisine: Indian

Course: side dish

Preparation time: 10 minutes

cooking time: 15 minutes

Serves: 3

Ingredients :

Bottle gourd – 11/2 cup (chopped) / half part in a whole bottle gourd

Coconut oil – 2 tbsp

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal – 1/2 tsp

Green chilly – 1

Curry leaves few

Curd / yoghurt – 1 cup (beaten)

Coriander leaves for garnish

Salt to taste

Preparation method:

To chop the bottle gourd:

1. To cut the bottle gourd, firstly Peel off, cut it vertically, take off the seed part, then cut the vegetable into small cubes nicely

To cook:

2. In a pan, heat the 2 tbsp coconut oil, splutter mustard seeds, add urad dhal, curry leaves, green chillies one by one

3. Put the chopped onion, saute for 3 minutes to get the onion translucent

4. Later add bottle gourd cubes and salt (put only half salt in the beginning)

5. Saute it for 10 minutes

6. After this veggie got cooked, turn off the flame, let this veggie come to warm condition

7. Add 1 cup of beaten fresh curd/ yoghurt, add required salt in this stage, mix well

8. Finally, garnish with coriander leaves.

Stepwise Picture Recipe:

Chopping the bottle gourd:

I have taken half of a whole bottle gourd
Peel off
Cut it vertically
Now cut off the seed portion

To cook:

Heat the coconut oil, splutter the mustard seeds, add urad dhal, curry leaves and green chilli and saute
Add chopped onion, saute it till turns into translucent
add the chopped bottle gourd
Now add little salt(1/4tsp) and saute
Saute for 10 minutes
After the bottle gourd got cooked, turn off the flame and let it come to warm condition
Add fresh beaten curd/ yoghurt and mix well nicely
mix well, add required salt as well and mix well, finally garnish with coriander leaves
Serve with love

Note:

Importantly, add a little bit of salt when you saute

You can use this raita with pulao, and also if you are following a low carb diet, you can take this as whole food for lunch as well as that.

you can use any oil of your choice but adding especially coconut oil gives nice flavour this raita indeed, so don’t miss out

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