Recipe: Delicious Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings)

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Recipe: Delicious Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings). Shukto which people from opar bangla or Bangladesh call shuktoni is actually the result of Portuguese influence from colonization in the pre British era when the use of milk in a savory vegetable dish was tried. The fried lentil dumplings or bori is another delightful part of Shukto which adds a nice bite to the dish. I remember as a child I used to RECIPE.

Eating shukto is good for all time but its highly recommendable to have in summer season as it keeps your body and stomach cool.

And the bitter gourd provides the quintessential bitterness.

Bengali shukto recipe is a light stew with just the flavourings of radhuni (a superior cousin of celery seeds) and milk.

You can cook Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings) using 25 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings)

  1. You need 2 of raw bananas chopped.

  2. Prepare 1/2 cup of raw papaya chopped.

  3. It’s 1 of small brinjal chopped.

  4. Prepare 7-8 of flat beans chopped.

  5. Prepare 7-8 of urad or matar dal dumplings (bori).

  6. It’s 1 of bitter gourd (karela) sliced.

  7. It’s 1 tbsp of ginger paste.

  8. Prepare 1 tbsp of mustard paste.

  9. Prepare 1 tsp of poppy seed paste.

  10. It’s For of Dry roast.

  11. You need 1 tbsp of Mustard seeds.

  12. You need 1 tbsp of Fennel seeds.

  13. You need 1/2 tsp of Fenugreek seeds.

  14. It’s 1-2 of dry red chillies.

  15. You need 1 tsp of paanch phoron or.

  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp of mustard.

  17. It’s 1/4 tsp of methi.

  18. Prepare 1/4 tsp of radhuni.

  19. Prepare 1 pinch of hing.

  20. It’s 1 cup of water.

  21. Prepare 2 tbsp of milk.

  22. It’s 3 tbsp of mustard oil.

  23. It’s 1 tbsp of ghee.

  24. Prepare 1 tbsp of scraped coconut.

  25. It’s To taste of salt and sugar.

The latter is thought of as a Portuguese influence.

Another important ingredient is bori, these little lentil dumplings dried in the sun.

Shukto is a traditional Bengali vegetarian dish which is actually e a mix veg recipe.

Karela or bitter gourd is the main ingredient of sukto.

Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings) step by step

  1. There are options of adding other seasonal vegetables like sweet potato,drumsticks, radish etc..

  2. Dry roast mustard,fennel and methi and dry grind it and store.1 dry red chilli may also be roasted and ground.Heat oil and fry the dumplings and set aside.Also fry the bitter gourd in little oil and set aside.Heat more oil and stir fry all vegetables separately..

  3. Sprinkle methi, mustard, radhuni and 1 broken red chilli.When they splutter add hing.Now pour all fried vegetables except brinjal and bitter gourd.Toss and add water.Add salt and sugar to taste.Boil till cooked.Add ginger paste,then mustard and poppy seed paste.Add coconut and 2 tbsp milk.Now add the bitter gourd and brinjal and the dumplings and boil few minutes.When done sprinkle dry roasted masala and 1 tbsp ghee.Serve as first course meal with rice.Other items follow after serving shukto..

Potatoes, raw papaya, eggplant, raw banana, pumpkin, drumsticks and so many.

In Bengali household it's a common dish which we usually eat as an appetizer before the main course.

In this shukto recipe, apart from bitter gourd, drum sticks, raw bananas, raw papayas, sweet potatoes, beans, brinjals, potatoes are used, even a few more vegetables can be added in this bengali dish, i.e, raddish, ridge gourd, etc.

Lentil dumplings or dal er bori is one more important ingredient for making this traditional shukto or sukto recipe.

Give it a nice mix and cook it covered till the bottle gourd becomes soft.