Kirti's Home Recipes

Methi or Fenugreek vegetable is available in all the seasons. It tastes bitter but when you make it with Jaggery and crushed ginger garlic it becomes very tasty. It is one of the simplest vegetables to make and takes just about 15-20 minutes of cooking time.

Ingredients

Steps to make Methichi bhaji

• Clean and wash methi bhaji thoroughly, chop it finely.

• Heat kadhai add oil and let it become hot reduce the flame to low, add ginger garlic and green chilli sauté for 2 minutes.

• Add methi bhaji mix well and sprinkle 2-3 tabelspoon water. Cover it for 5 minutes and stir in between. Make sure not to add too much of water.

• Mix all remaining ingredients coconut, salt, jaggery and cover it again. Cook for another 5 minutes till bhaji becomes soft and dry.

• Serve the vegetable with rice and curry.

People do not prefer Bitter Gourd / Karela due to its bitter taste. It has many heathy nutrients. Here is an authentic Goan recipe called Karetyachi Koshimbir. Bitter Gourd is called Karete in Konkani and Karale in Marathi language. Koshimbir is a general term used for salad or raita as it is called in Hindi.

I hope you will also fall in love with Bitter Gourd after tasting this. The recipe takes about 30 minutes of preparation time. Note that the marinated bitter gourd slices needs to be additionally kept aside for at least 3 hours. Also use thick frying pan.

Ingredients

Steps to make Karetyachi Koshimbir

• Wash and scrape bitter gourd.

• Cut them lengthwise. Clean the seeds and pulp part with help of spoon.

• Cut them in thin slices of about 0.25 inches in width.

• Marinate with salt and keep it aside for about three hours.

• Knead the mixture which helps to release water. Squeeze all the water. This helps to reduce the bitterness.

• Heat pan on medium flame and add 2 tablespoon oil, when it gets hot put all bitter gourd and mix well .

• Stir in between for 10 minutes.

• Reduce the flame to low and let it roast for another 10 minutes while stirring in between.

• Grind coconut and green chillis in mixer or grinder to form a coarse mix.
• When bitter gourd is roasted completely transfer in bowl and let it cool for about 5-10 minutes.
• Mix curd, hing / Asafoetida, Sugar , Coconut and Chilli mixture all together and mix very well.

Serve the Koshimbir with a healthy meal of rice and curry.