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This is a favorite dish of Bengalis and its main ingredient is lau or lauki - it is healthy, tasty, and low in calorie. Shukto is a traditional Bengali dish, known for its bitter and pungent taste and is best served with rice. Old timers believed that shukto should be eaten.
Lau/Lauki r Shukto (Bottle gourd in mustard sauce) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lau/Lauki r Shukto (Bottle gourd in mustard sauce) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lau/lauki r shukto (bottle gourd in mustard sauce) using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lau/Lauki r Shukto (Bottle gourd in mustard sauce):
- Take 1 kg bottle gourd peeled and chopped into small cubes
- Make ready 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- Get 1 tablespoon black mustard
- Get 1/2 teaspoon radhuni/methi seeds
- Get 1 pinch turmeric powder
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 tablespoon oil
You can add or remove vegetables as per your taste. Classic Sukto recipe is prepared mainly with bottle gourd & different. See great recipes for Lau/Lauki r Shukto (Bottle gourd in mustard sauce) too! Shukto is a Bengali Mixed vegetarian dish comprising of several veggies & Bong's have it as part of Lunch with rice especially on auspicious occasions. শুক্তনিতে ঝাল দিয়েছে অম্বলেতে ঘি!" the famous Bengali Song depicting how to cook Shukto properly!
Instructions to make Lau/Lauki r Shukto (Bottle gourd in mustard sauce):
- Soak both kinds of mustard seeds in water.
- Take a pan. To the pan add ½ tablespoon of oil.
- Once the oil is hot add the radhuni/methi seeds. As the seeds start spluttering add the chopped bottle gourd cubes.
- Grind the soaked mustard seeds with some salt. (Blend the mustard seeds with little salt and leave it for some time. Salt removes the bitterness of mustard seeds)
- Add salt according to taste. Remember you also have some added salt to the mustard.
- Cover and keep cooking the bottle gourd till it becomes mushy.
- Now add the mustard paste and a pinch of turmeric and cook until most of the water dries up.
- Serve with rice
Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean is a vine grown for its fruit. Lau'er Shukto is one of the easiest shukto recipes we know of. Shukto refers to a wide array of mild, creamy, often bitter curries served as appetisers In the somewhat rigid structure of a Bengali meal, shukto comes after shaak (leafy greens) and before dal. This recipe, made with lau (bottle gourd). Peel and chop bottle gourd into a medium size pieces.
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