Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja
Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, fried bitter gourd or karela bhaja. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

The bitter gourd looks like a cucumber but with ugly gourd-like bumps all over it. Bitter gourds are very low in calories but dense with precious nutrients. Bitter foods are well-known antioxidants that contain immunity-boosting enzymes.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have fried bitter gourd or karela bhaja using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja:
  1. Get 250 gm karela(bitter gourd)cut into roundals
  2. Prepare 2 large onions sliced
  3. Get 4-5 tbsp mustard oil
  4. Take To taste Salt
  5. Make ready Pinch panch phoren
  6. Take 1/2 tsp dhania (coriander)powder
  7. Prepare 1/4 tsp haldi (turmeric)powder
  8. Get 1/4 tsp saunf(fennel) powder
  9. Make ready 1/4 tsp amchur (dry mango)powder
  10. Prepare 1/4 tsp red chilli powder

If you prefer crunchy bitter gourd then fry them without covering stirring often. Teto Bhaja aka Uchchhe Bhaja literally means fried bitters and it's a part of traditional Bengali delicacy. I can imagine how horrified face you have now there. Uchchhe is known as bitter gourd in English; so is the Karela but both things are not same.

Instructions to make Fried Bitter Gourd or Karela Bhaja:
  1. Mix karela roundals with 1/2 tsp salt, mix it well. Keep aside for an hour.
  2. Now wash karela pcs, strain it so that extra water is removed.
  3. Take a wok, add oil, heat it. Deep fry karela pcs till light brown. Do not over cook it. Keep aside.
  4. Now fry onions in the same oil till light brown. Keep aside.
  5. Remove the excess oil from the wok, heat it.
  6. Add panchphoren, sauté it for a sec.
  7. Add karela & onion, stir it for a while. Sprinkle some salt.
  8. Now add all powdered masala, mix well. Stir it for a while.
  9. Switch off the flame now, take out in a serving bowl, have it with Paratha.
  10. All cooking is done at high flame.

They belong to similar family yet different. Karela fry recipe - Kakarakaya fry or bitter gourd fry is an easy, quick and healthy dish. If you like karela or bitter gourd then only you will like this dish. Not many people are fond of karela because of its bitter taste. i make a karela dish once in a month as it is. As the name suggests, karela are bitter but are known to have therapeutic value, especially for those suffering from diabetes.

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