 Stuffed Ridgegourd - Try this with Zucchini
Ridgegourd - ½ kg
Red chilli powder - 2 tsp (or to taste)
Hing - ½ tsp
Haldi - ¼ tsp
White seasame seeds - 1 tbsp
Oil - 3 tbsp
To temper:
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Peel the vegetable & cut into 3-4” long pieces.
Slit each piece into 4, keeping one end intact.
Mix, red chilli powder, hing, haldi, salt, seasame seeds,1 tsp oil with little water & make a thick dough.
Fill the slit vegetable with this & rest for 5 mts.
Heat oil in a flat saucepan, temper the given ingredients & add the stuffed vegetable.
Cover & lower the flame for 5-6 mins.
Since it is a watery vegetable, don’t add water.
It will get cooked in its own steam – stir once, in between. |