Recipe of Homemade Bottle Gourd Raita

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bottle gourd raita. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Bottle Gourd Raita is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Bottle Gourd Raita is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have bottle gourd raita using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bottle Gourd Raita:

1. Make ready bottle gourd of medium size
2. Make ready onion chopped
3. Take green chilli chopped
4. Take ginger grated
5. Get curry leaves
6. Take oil
7. Get cumin seeds
8. Take salt
9. Take fresh curd
10. Take grated coconut (optional)
11. Get sugar
12. Take mustard seeds
13. Make ready dry red chillies
14. Prepare chopped coriander leaves

Steps to make Bottle Gourd Raita:

1. To begin with, wash, peel and grate the bottle gourd.
2. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. When they start to sizzle, add green chilli, ginger,onion and few curry leaves. Fry till onion turns translucent.
3. Add in grated bottle gourd and salt. Saute for a minute or two.
4. Add little water and cook covered on a low medium flame for 3-4 minutes or till the water dries up and the bottle gourd softens. Turn off the heat and let the bottle gourd cool.
5. Meanwhile, take curd in a bowl and whisk it until smooth. Add in sugar, grated coconut, cooked bottle gourd and mix thoroughly.
6. For the tempering, heat remaining oil in a tempering pan and add the mustard seeds. When the seeds crackle, add dry red chillies and curry leaves. Saute on a medium flame for few seconds.
7. Pour this tempering over the curd- bottle gourd mixture. Thus ready is the bottle gourd raita. Serve it garnished with chopped coriander leaves.

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