Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, whole pointed gourd with coconut & poppy seeds. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Whole Pointed Gourd with Coconut & Poppy seeds is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Whole Pointed Gourd with Coconut & Poppy seeds is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Pointed gourd (Potol) is a summer vegetable in India. 'Gota Potol Posto' (Whole Pointed Gourd with coconut and Poppy seeds) is a famous recipe in West. A message from Sharmila Choudhury - [creater of this recipe] - "some recipes become family favourites simply because the combination of ingredients, cooked. His is a very special recipe to me because this entire recipe was invented by my mother.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have whole pointed gourd with coconut & poppy seeds using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Whole Pointed Gourd with Coconut & Poppy seeds:
- Make ready 10-12 parwal(pointed gourd)
- Prepare 1/2 cup grated coconut
- Get 4 tbsp poppy seeds
- Prepare 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 3-4 green chillies
- Get to taste Salt
- Take to taste Sugar
- Take as needed Nigella seeds
Coconut products are supremely delicious and great for our health. A multitude of fantastic ingredients come from one fruit, so why not go straight to the source? To prepare pointed gourd for cooking, wash thoroughly, then cut in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with a sharp spoon or corer and discard. Put the washed and peeled gourd on a Β· In Indonesia, pointed gourd is prepared in various dishes, such as stir fry, cooked in coconut milk, or steamed.
Instructions to make Whole Pointed Gourd with Coconut & Poppy seeds:
- Scrap the parwal (pointed gourd). Chop off both the ends.
- Now peel strips in alternate.Make slits in both ends.
- Parwal should be intact.Wash & drain them. Toss them with salt & keep aside.
- Grind poppy seeds,grated coconut & green chlli.Make a fine paste.Paste should be thick.
- Heat mustard oil in a pan.Fry thr parwal till becomes light brown.Remove from the oil & keep aside.
- Add 1 tbsp oil & add nigella seeds & green chilli.Then add masala paste. Fry well.
- Then add the fried whole parwal,salt,sugar.Mix well.Add 1 cup of warm water.
- Cover & cook till the parwal s are fully cooked & almost all the water has dried up.
- Gravy should coat the parwals nicely & should not be runny.
- Serve hot with plain rice….heaven!!
Pointed gourd is a very ancient Ayurvedic medicinal herb and vegetable. It is very beneficial to improve gastric health. Its root, leaf and fruit are used in. Pointed gourd root is Sukha virechaka - causes mild purgation. Patola patra - leaves balance Pitta.
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