Bitter Gourd Curry - 1

Bitter gourd curry

Bitter gourd is very good for diabetic people. If it is used thrice in a week this diabetic can be controlled well.

Ingredients 

Bitter guard – 300

Chopped Onion – 2 nos

Chopped Tomato – 2 nos

Green chili – 1 no

Red chilli pwd – 1 tspn

Turmeric pwd – ½ tspn

Salt – to taste

For tempering

Oil – 3 tspn

Mustard seeds – ½ tspn

Curry leaves – few

Ginger garlic paste- 1 tspn

Mango pwd – ¼ tspn

Lemon juice – ¼ tspn

jaggery – ½ tspn

Grated coconut – ¼ cup (optional)

Method

1. Wash and chop the bitter gourd.
2. Heat oil in pan temper with mustard seeds, curry leaves and ginger garlic paste sauté till it raw smell goes off. 
3. Add chopped onion fry till change to pink and chopped tomato, green chilli, sauté 1 minutes and add red chilli pwd , turmeric pwd,salt & add chopped bitter gourd sprinkle some water and close the lid and cook under medium heat about 3 minutes.
4. Finely add add lemon juice, jaggery, mango pwd, grated coconut and stir it well and cook for 2 minutes and remove for the heat.
5.  Serve with plain rice or chappathi.

As it tastes very bitter it is not easily consumed by most of the people.

you can use tamarind juice instead of mango pwd and lemon juice 

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