Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bottle gourd pulao. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bottle Gourd Pulao is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Bottle Gourd Pulao is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Learn how to make Bottle Gourd Rice. Bottle gourd is known as sorakkai in Tamil, lauki or doodhi in Hindi and chorakaa in Malayalam. This is one of my favorite dish and I make this simple lauki pulao quite often and pair it with a spicy gravy.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bottle gourd pulao using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bottle Gourd Pulao:
- Take 3 1/2 cups Rice
- Prepare 4 cups Bottle Gourd chunks
- Take 2 tsp Salt
- Prepare 2 tsp Red Chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp Cumin powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Coriander powder
- Take 1 tsp Garam Masala
- Get 1 tbsp Biryani Masala
- Get 1 cup Curd
- Get 2 tsp Ginger garlic paste
- Get 2 Onions thinly sliced
- Make ready 3 Tomatoes finely chopped
- Take 1 small bunch Coriander Leaves finely chopped
- Get 1 Sprig Curry Leaves roughly torn
- Make ready 1/4 cup Oil
- Get 1 tbsp Ghee
- Take 2 Bay Leaves
- Take 2 Cinnamon sticks small
- Get 2-3 Green Chillies finely chopped
Bottle gourd or calabash is a delicately flavored, Cucurbita family vegetable. It is one of the chief culinary vegetables in many tropical and temperate regions around the world. Bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the Cucurbitaceae family. It is also called Calabash Gourd, Trumpet Gourd and Long Squash.
Instructions to make Bottle Gourd Pulao:
- Heat ghee and Oil in a cooking pot. Add Bay Leaves, Cinnamon sticks and Caraway Seeds. Next add sliced Onions.
- Saute onions with ginger garlic paste until light brownish in colour. Add slit green chillies along with the chopped tomatoes and cook until mushy and tender before finally adding the bottlegourd chunks. Also add Red Chilli, Turmeric, Cumin and Coriander powders.
- Let them cook for 10 minutes on a low heat with a lid on. Do not add water. After 10 minutes, add beaten curd along with the biryani masala. Let it simmer on a low heat for about 6-7 minutes. Meanwhile cook rice al dente. Adjust salt accordingly both in rice and the bottlegourd mix.
- After done, add rice to the pot and fluff it up very gently. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raita of your choice.
Bottle gourd curry recipe - One of the easiest bottle gourd recipes from Indian cuisine. This bottle gourd recipe is easy and quick to prepare, most convenient even for working folks. Calabash Gourd, White flower gourd, Doodhi, Dudhi, Ghiya, Lauki, What is Bottle Gourd? (Doodhi, lauki). It belongs to the gourd family- Cucurbitaceae and is a running or climbing vine. Bottle gourd can vary in size shape and length depending on how it is grown and when it is harvested.
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