Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sauté well then sprinkle the turmeric, red chili powder, sugar and salt and give it a stir. Add bay leaves and cumin seed. Add chopped bottle gourd (lauki or lau) with salt, turmeric powder and green chili, ginger paste and then mix properly in same order.
Lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry) using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry):
- Get 1/2 Bottle gourd sliced
- Make ready 1 cup desiccated coconut
- Prepare 3 slit green chillies
- Make ready 1 tsp celery seed
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 bunch coriander leaves chopped
It is a humble side dish, typically paired with steamed white rice and lentil stew. For the past several years since I left home, I have used bottle guard so many times in several different dishes. But I never used those peels. Nothing is more refreshing on a hot summer day than lau ghonto, bottle gourd cooked in its own juices with peas and badis (badis are sun-dried lentil dumplings, very popular in traditional Bengali cuisine).
Instructions to make Lau ghonto (bottle gourd stir fry):
- Heat oil and temper celery seeds and green chillies
- Add gourd slices and saute well
- Add salt and turmeric powder and cover till it is soft
- Add coconut and sugar and mix well
- Finally add coriander leaves and switch off the flame.
- Serve it with main course
Passed down generations with almost every family having a little twist or variant of its own, this very simple earthy Bengali dish can be traced back centuries. Lau Ghonto (Bottle Gourd Curry - Bengali Style) This is a typical homemade style Bottle Gourd curry that is very commonly made in many Bengali household. Bori / vadi / dried lentil dumplings are used to prepare this simple recipe for a crunchy effect. The dish is called bottle gourd peel stir-fry, or as Bengalis call it 'lau-er khosha bhaja' (it is a very common recipe in a Bengali house-hold). Apart from its delicious taste, lauki peels are also known to have some amazing health benefits.
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