Bitter gourd curry is a tangy, sweet curry that goes well with a hot bowl of rice. This curry is vegan, gluten-free, and easy.
Bitter gourd curry
Bitter gourds are one of the most nutritious veggies. But is hated by most of the people at the same time because of its bitterness. This is one easy and yummy recipe to include the bitter gourd in your diet. When you have this curry, you don’t even know how much you eat. This is a thick curry to have along with some hot rice.
How to make
Ingredients required
Method
Cut the bitter gourd to half and deseed. Cut it into thin pieces. Soak tamarind in a half cup of water and extract tamarind pulp. Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds along with methi seeds. Add shallots and curry leaves. When shallots turn golden add tomato.
Sauté it for a minute. Add turmeric powder and red chili powder. Sauté till tomatoes become mushy. Add chopped bitter gourd. Cook covered for a few minutes. Stir occasionally. When it’s almost done add tamarind extract, jaggery, and salt. Allow it to boil till the raw smell goes and thickens. Serve warm with rice and Potato fry.
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Recipe for bitter gourd curry
Ingredients
Pavaika/ Bitter gourd – 1 medium-sized
Shallots – 6
Tomato – 1 medium-sized chopped
Tamarind – half lemon-sized
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Red chili powder – 1 tsp
Jaggery – a small piece
Salt – as required
Mustard seeds – few
Methi seeds – 4 or 5
Curry leaves – few
Oil – 1 tsp
Method
- Cut the bitter gourd to half and deseed. Cut it into thin pieces.
- Soak tamarind in a half cup of water and extract tamarind pulp.
- Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds along with methi seeds.
- Add shallots and curry leaves.
- When shallots turn golden add tomato.
- Sauté it for a minute. Add turmeric powder and red chili powder.
- Sauté till tomatoes become mushy.
- Add chopped bitter gourd. Cook covered for a few minutes. Stir occasionally.
- When it’s almost done add tamarind extract, jaggery, and salt.
- Allow it to boil till the raw smell goes and thickens.
- Serve warm with rice.
Vegan Bitter gourd Curry
Equipment
- Ladle
Ingredients
- 1 Pavaika/ Bitter gourd medium-sized
- 6 Shallots
- 1 Tomato medium-sized chopped
- Tamarind half lemon sized
- 1/4 Tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 Tsp Red chili powder
- Jaggery a small piece
- Salt as required
- 1/4 Tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/8 Tsp Methi seeds
- Curry leaves few
- 1 Tsp Oil
Instructions
- Cut the bitter gourd to half and deseed. Cut it to thin pieces.
- Soak tamarind in a half cup water and extract tamarind pulp.
- Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds along with methi seeds.
- Add shallots and curry leaves.
- When shallots turn golden, add tomato.
- Sauté it for a minute. Add turmeric powder, red chili powder.
- Sauté till tomatoes become mushy.
- Add chopped bitter gourd. Cook for a few minutes. Stir occasionally.
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I have never cooked bitterfgourd in curry form. Only stuffed or dried vrriosn I have made so far. This gravy with tamarind sounds quite intriguing.
Thank you. Hope you try this.
Sweet & tangy bitter gourd curry is also our favourite way to make this very underrated vegetable. We love it so much and it’s a must at least once in a fortnight!! Looks so delicious, I’m totally drooling 🤤
Thank you so much, Padma.
I m salivating as i read thru the recipe! i love bittergourd, this puli kuzhambu is such a tempting combination of bitterness, tanginess and sweetness! A classic dish, love to enjoy it with steaming hot rice!!!
Absolutely. Thank you.
Such a delicious and tasty karela sabji with imli and jaggery, simple and easy to mop it up with hot phulka.
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We love bitter gourd in any form. Most of the time I prepare Bengali style curry. Next time I would give a try to this simple bitter gourd curry
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We all love bitter gourd and this is a great curry to use all the bitter gourd now growing in our backyard. This will work so well with rice.
Yes, it does taste great with rice. Thank you
I love bitter gourd and yes I want to make this delicious curry! I am sure my family will like it too. 😀
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I’m not a bitter gourd fan at all but my hubby is. I think I’ll prepare this simple curry for him when I get some bitter gourd. He will be happy as its totally different to the way I make it.
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Tangy, sweet bitter gourd curry that is vegan, gluten-free, and easy to make looks so inviting. A must try recipe.
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We love bitter gourd in our home and this curry sounds perfect to try soon. It is so simple to make and looks absolutely delicious.
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Tried this recipe. We loved it! It was spicy sweet tangy and bitter too. Had it with potato fry and pappadums and hot steaming rice to make it a complete South Indian fare
Thank you so much for your feedback.
Wow! Wonderful! Going to try soon!
Glad you like it? Thank you?
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Love bitter gourd!! This should be delicious!
Ya it is along with some hot rice??
I love bitter gourd, and this looks very delicious!
Thank you Freda?..
Great way to incorporate bitter gourd! One of my favorite veg!! I was often considered the oddball cos I favor such a hated veg so much :p
?… actually that’s a good thing.. Thank you?