Bitter Melon Curry
Mar. 20th, 2007 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grumThis is the recipe I "used" last time
Ingredients
Bitter melon - 1/2 kg
Salt - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Cut bitter-melon into fine pieces. Add salt, turmeric powder and leave it for 15 min. Heat 6 tsp of oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds and when it pops, add 3/4 tsp asafoetida. Squeeze out the water from the bitter-melon and add it to the oil. Add red chili powder and fry well until fully cooked.
Despite not really following it last time, I went online and found it again before doing making the same, only tangentially related bitter melon curry a second time. I even took the computer into the kitchen so I could look at the recipe I wasn't really following.
This is what I'll be eating for the next few days. Well, this and a big pot of rice.
Ingredients
Yellow onion - 1, chopped
Olive oil - a bit
Bitter melon - 2, seeded and diced
Turmeric powder - .5 tsp
Curry powder - .5 tsp
Chili powder - .5 tsp
Can of curry paste - 1/3 cupish
Tomato - 2, diced
Cook onion in olive oil until transparent and starting to brown. Add diced bitter melon and spices, stir intermittently, add tomato when about half cooked, or pot looks to be getting dry.
I'm not sure the two recipes are anymore than distant cousins. One of these days, I'll believe that I can cook without a recipe. Until then, I'm much happier thinking of them as suggestions than I ever was following them slavishly.
Ingredients
Bitter melon - 1/2 kg
Salt - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Cut bitter-melon into fine pieces. Add salt, turmeric powder and leave it for 15 min. Heat 6 tsp of oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds and when it pops, add 3/4 tsp asafoetida. Squeeze out the water from the bitter-melon and add it to the oil. Add red chili powder and fry well until fully cooked.
Despite not really following it last time, I went online and found it again before doing making the same, only tangentially related bitter melon curry a second time. I even took the computer into the kitchen so I could look at the recipe I wasn't really following.
This is what I'll be eating for the next few days. Well, this and a big pot of rice.
Ingredients
Yellow onion - 1, chopped
Olive oil - a bit
Bitter melon - 2, seeded and diced
Turmeric powder - .5 tsp
Curry powder - .5 tsp
Chili powder - .5 tsp
Can of curry paste - 1/3 cupish
Tomato - 2, diced
Cook onion in olive oil until transparent and starting to brown. Add diced bitter melon and spices, stir intermittently, add tomato when about half cooked, or pot looks to be getting dry.
I'm not sure the two recipes are anymore than distant cousins. One of these days, I'll believe that I can cook without a recipe. Until then, I'm much happier thinking of them as suggestions than I ever was following them slavishly.
