Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pointed gourd in milky gravy. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Doodh means milk and potol means pointed gourd in Bengali. Now pour the milk and little bit of water to adjust the consistency of the gravy and boil the bottle gourd in it until it gets cooked. Serve it with rice and add a dash of more coconut oil on top of the gravy for that extra richness.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pointed gourd in milky gravy using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pointed Gourd in Milky Gravy:
- Get 500 g baby pointed gourds
- Take 100 g Amul Milk Powder
- Make ready 1 cup lukewarm water
- Take 1-2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1/2 inch cinnamon
- Make ready 2 cardamoms
- Make ready 2-3 cloves
- Prepare 2-3 green chillies slit
- Make ready 1/2 inch ginger chopped
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Make ready To taste salt
- Take 1 tsp ghee
- Take 2 tbsp oil
- Get 2 tsp chopped coriander leaves
Serve Bengali Doi Potol Recipe (Pointed Gourd In Malpua Recipe with Rabri (A Spiced Indian Pancake with Milk Pudding). Patol Kasha (Fried pointed gourds coated with rich n thick gravy), Pointed gourd in pumpkin gravy, Narkel Potol - Pointed Gourd / Parwal curry in coconut gravy. Pointed gourd or in Assamese potol is a very common vegetable in summer. I make potol fry everyday as my daughter likes it very much.
Instructions to make Pointed Gourd in Milky Gravy:
- First of all, cut the pointy ends of the pointed gourd and then give a cross-cut starting from its one end towards the centre keeping the other end intact. Wash well.
- Transfer the pointed gourds to a bowl. Add turmeric powder with a pinch of salt and mix well. Set aside for 10 minutes.
- Now in a bowl take the milk powder. Add lukewarm water and stir continuously with a spoon until the powder has completely dissolved. Keep it aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and fry pointed gourds till light brown over a medium flame. Remove and keep aside.
- In the same pan add remaining oil with 1 tsp ghee. Once hot, add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Fry till they are aromatic. Add green chillies, chopped ginger and saute for few seconds. Next add cumin powder, coriander powder and saute for a minute or two.
- Then add the fried pointed gourds and salt to taste. Mix well and cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Now add the above prepared milk and give a good stir. Bubble everything on a medium heat until the pointed gourds are tender.
- Once the pointed gourds have become soft and the milk has reduced to a creamy texture, add little ghee to make it more flavourful.
- Finally add the garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves. Cover and switch off the flame.
- Serve hot with plain rice or roti.
Pointed gourd/parwal beneficial for improving digestion, treats constipation, reduces flu, fight ageing factors, control blood sugar and cholesterol. They have been mainly used to prepare gravy kind dishes and dry dishes. In certain parts it can also be utilized to organize a particular number of sweets. Be it bitter gourd, ridge gourd or snake gourd, they all very good for treating urinary disorders and Green vegetables like pointed gourd or parwal is another commonly prepared in the Indian cuisine. Both dry and gravy side dishes are prepared using pointed gourd.
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