Guys, today I’m making a vegetable which is very healthy and is widely used in Indian cooking throughout India. It is stuffed karela vegetable. This karela recipe is popular because the bitterness of karela is reduced to almost nil in this recipe and many other flavors are included.
This is a traditional and authentic stuffed karela recipe (भरवां करेला रेसिपी) which I am sharing with you through this post. The main ingredients constitute Karela or bitter melon (also known as bitter gourd). Company of raw mango, onion, tomato, salt and various powdered spices makes it delicious. Salt plays an important role in this karela recipe to toning down the bitter taste of Karela.
It performs excellent in lunch or dinner, accompanied by daal, kadhi, curd rice or plain parathas. This stuffed karela is also good to carry in travelling as it has good shelf life.
Karela or bitter gourd is one of the healthiest food items because karela is low in calories, and rich in iron, calcium, minerals and vitamins.
Though its slightly bitter in taste but is very good for people with diabetes, heart disease, constipation, also helps in boosting immune system, weight loss, liver health, purifies blood and helpful in healing skin disorders and many more health benefits, so it should be included in our diet which ever way possible.
Let’s move on to the step by step recipe of stuffed karela !
- 250 gm Bitter Melon
- to taste Salt
- 4 Onion (finely chopped)
- 2 Tomato (finely chopped)
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 2 tsp Coriander Powder
- 2 tsp Cumin Seeds Powder
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- 1 tbsp Raw mango (grated)
- 2 tbsp Oil
- Scrape bitter melons and reserve scrapings in a bowl.
- Now, slit the bitter melons without cutting through and remove the seeds.
- Take water in a pan, add 1 tsp salt in it and boil bitter melons in this water until slightly tender.
- Now drain the water and let the boiled bitter melons cool.
- Squeeze these bitter melons gently.
- Meanwhile, we will prepare stuffing mixture to stuff in bitter melons.
- Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and cook onions in it till light brown.
- Then add scrapings of bitter melon, tomatoes and raw mango and cook for 5 minutes on low flame with covered lid.
- Now open the lid and add all the spices. Again cook this mixture for 2 minutes on low flame.
- When stuffing mixture cooked well then switch off the flame and let the mixture cool.
- Now, stuff the boiled bitter melons with this cooked mixture and tie them with a thread to secure the stuffing inside the bitter melons.
- Reserve the remaining stuffing mixture for final serving.
- Heat oil in a fry pan and shallow fry stuffed bitter melons on low flame until light brown.
- Wonderful stuffed karela is ready to serve.
- You can serve these bitter melons hot or at room temperature. Untie threads at the time of serving and serve this wonderful vegetable with the remaining stuffing mixture.
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