Dahi wale karela recipe | Bitter Gourd in yogurt sauce
Dahi wale karela recipe is a flavorful dish combining bitter gourd with tangy yogurt, creating a unique, deliciously spiced curry
Ingredients
- 500 gram karela/bitter gourd
- 1 +1/4 cup curd
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Red chilli powder as per taste
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 2 tbsp fennel seeds powder/sounf powder
- Salt to taste
- 1/4 cup mustard oil
Instructions
- Peel the bitter gourd.
- Slit them in a way as we cut them for filling. You will find the seeds. You may or may not remove them, choice is yours.
- Sprinkle 1 tsp salt over them.
- Rub the bitter gourd so well.
- Leave aside for 15-20 minutes.
- After the said period, squeeze the bitter gourd so that their extra bitterness will come out.
- Wash them.
- Take mustard oil in a pan.
- Cook the oil till smoking point.
- Add karela.
- Shallow fry them till they turn brown from all the sides.
- Take fried karela out.
- Add cumin seeds in the remaining oil and let cumin splutter.
- Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala and fennel seeds powder to curd.
- Whisk the curd so well.
- Add to the pan.
- Keep whisking otherwise curd will curdle.
- Stop only when curd begins to boil.
- Cook curd only for 2-3 minutes or until oil is seen separating from curd.
- Add fried karele and mix.
- Put a lid & let it simmer for 2 minutes only so that karele absorb all the flavours.
- Enjoy