Indian Recipes : Andhra
: Sorakaya Recipe
SORAKAYA RECIPE
A South Indain recipe of making bottle gourd in a sweet and sour taste
with ingredients like simple everyday spices and tamarind.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 c chopped sorakaya (bottle gourd or lauki)
1 tblsp tamarind (imli) pulp
2 tblsp Bengal gram flour (chana dal atta)(made by dry roasting Bengal
gram and grinding it)
1 tsp chili powder (laal mirch powder)
2 tsp cumin fenugreek powder(jeera methi powder) (made by dry roasting
and grinding them)
¼ tsp turmeric(haldi)
¼ tsp asafetida
1/2 c chopped onions
3 whole red chilies
a small bunch of curry leaves
¼ c chopped fresh coriander
1 tsp mustard seeds(rai)
1tsp Cumin seeds(jeera)
1 tsp fenugreek seeds(methi dana)
How to make sorakaya:
- Heat oil in a pan and add asafetida. Now add cumin fenugreek and mustard
seeds.
- Once they stat spluttering, add the whole red chilies.
- Now put in the onions and fry them till they are golden in color.
- Add turmeric powder and the sorakaya pieces.
- Mix well and fry till sorakaya is a little tender.
- To this add the Bengal gram flour and fry well.
- Now you should add the tamarind pulp and 3 or more cups of water.
- Once the water starts boling, add curry leaves, cumin and fenugreek
powder and chili powder.
- Cover and let it boil till the time the sorakaya pieces are tender
and the consistency is of a desired curry.
- Garnish with coriander and serve hot.
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