Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, stuffed karela/bittergourd. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed karela/bittergourd using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed karela/bittergourd:
- Prepare 500 gms medium karele
- Take 3 big size onions
- Make ready 1 unripe mango/ kachi aambi
- Prepare 1 tbsp fennel seeds/ saunf
- Make ready 1.5 tbsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1.5 tbsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 2 tbsp corriender powder
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp garam masala powder
- Take Salt as required
- Get 3-4 tbsp cooking oil
Stuff the split karelas with this spice mixture (there should be some spice mix remaining, which will be used later). Small bitter gourds are better for making Stuffed Bitter Gourds. Today we have brought you Karela Pickle Recipe without any use of raw. Bitter gourd, also called bitter melon, is known as karela in India.
Instructions to make Stuffed karela/bittergourd:
- Peel the karela's skin and cut both the ends of each karela.
- Now add around 1 to 2 tbsp salt on the karela and rub the salt properly on the karela with the hands and keep the karela aside for about half an hour. It helps in removing the bitterness of karela.
- After half an hour wash the karela throughly in running water, rinse well and keep them aside after that.
- Now grate the onions in a grater and squeeze the excessive water from the grated onions with the help of hands.
- Now grate the unripe mango pulp as well and mix it with the grated onions.
- Now add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, corriender powder, garam masala and salt to the onion and mango mixture and mix them well.
- Now fill the karela with the onion stuffing quite well from the slits with the hands.
- Now in a wok, heat the oil nicely.
- After that add the fennel seeds to the oil and let it splutter. Then add the karela one by one and carefully to the oil.
- Cook the karela on high flame for 5 minutes and after that low the flame and cook the karela slowly and stir them slowly in the mean time so that every side of the karela cooked properly.
- Now cover the wok lid and in every 7-8 minutes checked the karela and stir them carefully so that the stuffed coudn't come out. Cook the karela till there skin become soft and fried completely from inside and outside.
- Serve them hot with desired chappati or parantha.
This recipe of stuffed bitter gourd is prepared in the North Indian Punjabi style with a stuffing of onions and a variety of spices. Bitter gourd is a healthy vegetable that provides several health benefits. Now stuff the bitter-gourds with this stuffing. Tie each bitter-gourd with thread properly. Now arrange stuffed bitter gourd in remaining mince and add ¼ cup of water and cook on very low heat.
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