Ridged gourd potatoes curry. An additional fascinating combination- potatoes and ridge gourd. Potatoes join properly with a number of other vegetables - cauliflower, capsicum, peas would be the common combos I enjoy most - and today there is an addition for my list. Curry's attractiveness in the latest years has spread all.
Growing up, Turai is one vegetable all the kids would avoid.
I discovered ridge gourd only after moving to south India.
The first time that I bought it, my motivator was curiosity - I had no idea how this vegetable, which looked a cross between sponge gourd and bitter gourd, would be cooked, or what it would taste like.
You can have Ridged gourd potatoes curry using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Ridged gourd potatoes curry
- You need 2 of ridged gourd.
- It's 1 of potato.
- It's 2 tablespoon of poppy seeds.
- It's 1 tsp of green chillies.
- You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
- Prepare To taste of salt and sugar.
- Prepare As needed of oil.
Add potatoes, saute for few minutes and add the turai cubes in it and occasionally saute. Keep the sabzi covered while cooking. Add water just enough to make a curry like consistency. Once the potatoes and ridge gourd are cooked, add in the remaining spices including cumin powder, turmeric.
Ridged gourd potatoes curry step by step
- Heat oil and fry the potatoes and gourd.
- As moisture dries up add salt and turmeric powder and cover.
- Add poppy seeds paste as the vegetables are tender.
- Add sugar and mix well and serve.
Once in a while i make ridge gourd curry at home as a side dish for chapati/ roti. They taste great with plain rice too, topped with ghee is just the ultimate. Now add the chopped ridge gourd pieces along with turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder & salt. Saute well and add water to it. Here are other recipes from the site made using Ridge Gourd Here is the video of how to make Peerkangai Paal Kuzhambu.
