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Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju

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Bitter Gourd is said to be very very nutritious vegetable. Some people dislike it due to its bitter taste. But if you use bitter gourd in the form of curry you will not feel the bitterness as it would be blended with the sweetness of jaggery and sourness of tamarind along with spices.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju

Also this recipe is too simple to prepare. Keep in mind to buy tender bitter gourds. Remove all the seeds as they are indigestible. Keep the tamarind paste ready before you start cooking. In my house everyone loves this dish and I make it once in 15 days. Serve this Bitter Gourd Curry with plain rice or Chapathi.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju

 

Bitter Gourd Curry Ingredients:

  • Bitter Gourd – 2
  • Tamarind Paste – 1/2 Cup
  • Jaggery – 2 Tbsp
  • Red Chillies – 2
  • Coconut grated – 1/2 cup
  • Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt

Seasoning Ingredients:

  • Oil – 1 Tbsp
  • Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
  • Urad Dal / White Lentils – 1/2 tsp
  • Curry Leaves
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Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju

Preparation Time : 20 Minutes

How To Make Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju:

  1. Wash and split open the Bitter Gourd with a knife to remove the seeds. Now cut the Bitter Gourd into small pieces.

2. Grind Coconut and Red Chillies in a mixer grinder with some water to prepare a smooth Coconut-Red Chilli paste.

3. Heat 1 Tbsp oil in a pan and follow the steps below sequentially. Add mustard seeds. Wait until the mustard seeds splutter. Then add Urad Dal and fry till it turns to golden.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation

4.  Then add Curry leaves. Fry curry leaves for a minute.

5. Add cut Bitter Gourd pieces and Turmeric Powder. Fry in low flame for about 2 min.

6. Then add Tamarind paste and a cup of water.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation

7. Close the pan with lid to cook for 7-8 min or till Bitter Gourd pieces are cooked properly and turn a bit soft.

8. At this stage, Jaggery and Salt and fry for couple of minutes.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation

9. Add the Coconut-Red Chilli paste from step 2, to the mixture and boil for 2-3 minutes. If needed add water to the Gravy and boil for some more minutes.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju Preparation

Remove from the flame. The Bitter Gourd curry is now ready to be served.

Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju
Bitter Gourd Curry or Hagalakai Gojju

This gravy curry can have with Chapathi and also with plain rice. This is a good mixture of bitter, sweet and sour tastes and hence is one of my family favorite curries.

1 COMMENT

  1. Hi Hema,

    Firstly, I really liked the clean and organised look of your website 🙂

    My husband is vegetarian and I often run out of ideas to make subzis and curries with vegetables other than the usual potato, cauliflower, carrot, peas and channa. I’d like to include other less popular vegetables like snake gourd and various other gourds, pumpkin, beetroot, tondekai, avarekai, chapparada avarekai, turnips and the many varieties of greens leafy vegetables too in our menus. But the traditional ways of preparing them don’t seem to be enticing enough for those who like the North Indian style gravy-laden vegetable preparations. Just a suggestion – may be you could search/invent new recipes for the website that includes more types of vegetables and appeals to restaurant-satiated tongues.

    Sorry, couldn’t keep the response short. Hope you can make exceptions 🙂

    Thanks!

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