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Stuffed Bitter Gourd curry | Stuffed Karela | Gutti Kakarakaya | How to make Stuffed Bitter Gourd curry / fry

Curries | vegetarian

  • Prep Time 5 Mins
  • Cook Time 20 Mins
  • Servings 6

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Kilo Tender Small Bitter Gourds
  • 1/4 cup Salt
  • 1 tsp Turmeric
  • Pieces from 2 Dry Coconut Halves
  • 15 Red Chillies
  • 2 tsp Coriander Seeds
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 15 Garlic
  • 1 tbsp Jaggery
  • 1.25 tsp Salt
  • 2 Sprigs Curry leaves
  • Oil to fry

Instructions

  1. Peel the Bitter Gourds and remove the seeds.
  2. Mix Salt and Turmeric in a vessel. Rub it on the Bitter Gourds inside and out and let them rest for 30 minutes.
  3. Roast Dry Coconut pieces in a pan until they give out the aroma.
  4. In the same pan, add Coriander Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Garlic, Curry leaves and fry on low flame until they give out the aroma (If you like, you could add Bitter Gourd seeds too).
  5. Mix Coconut, roasted Coriander Seeds in a mixie, add Salt and Jaggery and make a Powder.
  6. Take the marinated Bitter Gourds and squeeze hard so that the bitter juice is extracted.
  7. Heat Oil in a pan and add the squeezed Bitter Gourds and fry them by pushing the oil on to the vegetable.
  8. Once they are cool, stuff the Coconut Spice Powder into the Bitter Gourds Coconut and serve with Rice.
  9. If you want, you can fry them half, take them out, stuff them and fry again. And then, you can add the rest of the Powder and fry.