Easiest Way to Spring Perfect Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy)

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Easiest Way to Spring Perfect Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy). Sorakkai Kulambu Recipe also known as bottle gourd kulambu. Sorakkai Kuzhambu is a simple coconut based gravy made with Bottle gourd. This Bottle Gourd Kulambu is a delicious and super healthy South Indian kulambu recipe goes well with rice.

The addition of small onions and ginger and optionally garlic cloves enhances the taste of this dish.  Did.

The bottle gourd is a water vegetable which has a plain taste and the cowpeas when added with this Suraikkai compliments each other nicely.

Try to use brown cowpeas for making this gravy as this tastes better than other types of cowpeas.

You can have Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy)

  1. You need 1/2 bottle of gourd cut into small pieces.

  2. You need 1 of onion chopped.

  3. You need 1 of tomato chopped.

  4. Prepare 1 tsp of kulambu milagai thool (or chilly powder and coriander powder).

  5. It’s 1 of small gooseberry sized tamarind.

  6. It’s of Mustard seeds to temper.

  7. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.

  8. It’s of Salt as required.

I have already posted a similar tasty south Indian kuzhambu Brinjal rajma gravy.

Typically this veggie is no ones favorite and usually ends up in kootu curry or sambar… if its more like a kurma it gets quite an attention at the table. சுரைக்காய்/ Bottle gourd gravy in Tamil, sorakkai kulambu, side dish for chapati, dosa, idly, rice.

Wash, peel the skin and remove the seeds of the Bottle gourd and chop into pieces.

Heat oil in the pan and add the mustard seeds and urad dal.

Sorakai kulambu (Bottle gourd gravy) instructions

  1. Soak tamarind in hot water for 20 mins. Extract juice out of it..

  2. Heat a pan with oil and temper with mustard seeds..

  3. Add onion and sauté well. Add Bottle gourd and cook it covered until it leaves water. Add tomato and cook it covered until it’s cooked. Add kulambu milagai thool and salt. Sauté until raw smell goes. Add tamarind water and cook for 5 to 10 mins..

  4. Serve with rice.

When the mustard stats popping add r onion, curry leaves, and Bottle gourd pieces.

This is a very quick and simple gravy prepared with bottle gourd.

It goes well with chapatis and parathas.

Today we will learn how to make low fat quick bottle gourd gravy following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.

Peal the bottle gourd skin and chop them in to small pieces.