Ethnic food: Bittergourd Kichadi

Bitter gourd

Kichadi

2 cups chopped

bittergourd

oil to fry

one and a half cup curd

1 cup grated coconut

1/4 tsp cumin seedsss

2 green chillies

1 dried red chilli

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds

Grind the green chillies,

cumin seeds, 1/4 tsp

mustard seeds and

coconut into a fine paste

and add this to the curd.

Add salt to this. Fry the

bittergourd in hot oil and

combine with the curdcoconut mixture. Heat oil

and add mustard

seeds(1/4 tsp), dried red

chilli and fenugreek

seeds . When the

mustard seeds splutters

pour the kichadi to this

and off the fire.

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