Today for the alphabet H in the A-Z themed Blogging Marathon #32, I selected this authentic Gujarathi savoury cake. The recipe is from Aromatic Dining blog. When I first saw the recipe, I was so interested. So when I visited mom’s place I tried it once. I gathered all the…
Bottle gourd also called as calabash, opo squash, suraikkai, lauki, dudhi or long melon is a vegetable grown in vines. When harvested young, it is used as a vegetable but when allowed to mature, it can be used as a utencil or bottle. This vegetable has a great water content.…
I usually prepare gravy using bottle gourd. But hubby started to dislike it . So nowadays I don’t buy bottle gourd. The chef in me wanted to disguise it in a dish and wanted to make my hubby relish it. Yesterday I bought a bottle gourd without hubby’s knowledge and…
This is again an experiment. I have not tried this combination. As Harini and Jaya asked us to use okra and bottle gourd in the menu, I thought of preparing this simple poriyal for side dish. This combination was nice and tasty. It went well with the Palak sambar and…
When planning for an appetizer for the lunch, I had bottle gourd and so I tried these pakoras. I was not very sure of the outcome. But the pakoras didn’t let me down. It was tasty and crisp. My hubby liked it and so I am happy, my experiment succeeded.…