U for Uchche posto Jhuri - Bitter gourd with poppy seeds

This is the final week of this Mega blogging Marathon, Journey Through the cuisines. This week start with the Alphabet U. This letter also have a few choice to find recipes but I find a very interesting name for a well known vegetable. Bitter gourd is known as Uchche in Bengali, which is my favorite vegetable. Yes bitter gourd is my one of the favorite vegetable. But many don't like this vegetable because of it's bitter taste. If you cook it in a proper way that taste delicious like all other vegetables. It's a very healthy vegetable which helps to enhances digestion, purifies the blood and acts as a very good cleanser to your body. In Bengali cuisine they include this bitter vegetable in their first course.
                                                               

So let's check the recipe....
recipe adopted from Sandeepa
INGREDIENTS:---
Bitter gourd ---- 2 medium
Poppy seeds  ---  2 tab sp
Mustard seeds ---  1/2 tea sp
Dry red chillies -- 1 broken
Oil --- 1 tab sp 
salt to taste
turmeric powder --- 1/4 tea sp
METHOD:---
1.  Grind poppy seeds in to a powder and set a side.
2. Chop the bitter gourds in to small pieces.
3. Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds and dry red chilli let them crackle.
4. Add bitter gourd pieces, salt to taste, turmeric powder cover the pan, keep the heat low, stir in between.
5. when the bitter gourd pieces are cooked  add poppy seed powder, sprinkle very little water and stir fry till bitter gourd turn dry.
Serve with plain rice and dal.



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