Kakarakaya Pulusu || Andhra style bitter gourd gravy

 Kakarakaya Pulusu || Andhra style bitter gourd curry with step by step pics and tips. It is very tasty and healthy recipe with less bitterness, its spicy and aromatic. I am not big fan of bitter gourd in my childhood but d't know how it became one of my favorite veggie now 😃😍. We can have this kakarakaya pulusu with rice and roti's. We can prepare this bitter gourd pulusu in different ways --

 1)by deep frying bitter gourd 

2) by shallow frying bitter gourd

3) by cooking bitter gourd directly ..

 Today I am sharing 3rd way by cooking directly with onions & tomatoes. In this way we will feel very little bitter taste, if you d't want to taste bitterness then deep fry bitter gourd pieces. Instead of deep frying I soaked bitter gourd pieces in buttermilk for 30 min, check recipes for more tips. We can adjust this pulusu/ gravy consistency as per your wish. Hubby was on trip so I prepared it bit thick, as I have to finish it by myself . stuffed bitter gourd is my all time favorite recipe which I love to have it as side dish for rasam rice, sambar rice and curd rice. Did you ever tried this kakarakaya podi / bitter gourd podi ?? if not try it once surely you will love it. sanna kakarakaya fry / tiny bitter gourd fry / kasarakaya fry is  Rayalaseema's popular bitter gourd recipe. 

Do check out some bitter gourd recipes, Rasam/ Dal / Kuzhumbu recipes from our  youtube  channel and blog by just clicking below links..

**  stuffed bitter gourd

** kakarakaya podi / bitter gourd podi

** sanna kakarakaya fry / tiny bitter gourd fry /kasarakaya fry 

** Hyderabadi kadhu ka dalcha(youtube link)

**  Lemon Rasam(youtube link)

** Pudina charu / mint rasam

** usirikaya charu/ Amla Rasam

** Udupi saaru / udupi style rasam

** Miriyala Charu / pepper rasam

** Drumstick Rasam

** Sundakkai Vatha Kuzhambu || Usthikaya pulusu

**   Mamidikaya pappu

** Menthi akku pappu  

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this cool cool mango matka kulfi to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her baked apple to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     

This month theme "Fear not the bitter" was suggested by Seema. She suggested to prepare any recipe using bitter ingredients, so I planned this kakarakaya pulusu recipe. I bookmarked her karela ka bartha recipe to try. This month I am paired with "Priya Iyer" who blogs at "thephotowali". She shares healthy recipes from different regions, I bookmarked her latest basil cream sauce pasta to try soon. Priya gave tamarind & jaggery as secret ingredients, in turn I gave methi leaves & turmeric as two secret ingredients.she prepared tasty and delicious methi malai paneer, do check out her space.

                  Kakarakaya Pulusu/ Andhra Bitter gourd gravy  

Preparation time : 20 minutes

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 2

Category : Dal/Sambar/Rasam/Pulusu/kuzhambu/pulusu

Recipe Cuisine: Andhra 

Main ingredients : Bitter gourd

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Bitter gourd - 2 (medium size)

Onions - 2

Tomatoes -1 (large)

buttermilk - 3 cups 

curry leaves - 1 sprig

coriander leaves - 3 tsp(finely chopped)

dry coconut powder/paste - 1/2 cup

tamarind - small lemon size

jaggery - 1 tsp

coriander powder - 1 tsp

cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

red chilli powder - 1 tsp(adjust)

turmeric powder - 1/4 + 1/4 tsp

fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp

cumin seeds - 1tsp

garlic - 10 pods

Instructions

1) Take buttermilk in a wide bowl, to this add 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, pinch of salt and mix everything well.

2)Later lightly peel out bitter gourd skin, cut it into rounds. If you feel bitter gourd seeds hard remove it. Then soak bitter gourd pieces in above buttermilk mixture and leave it for 30 minutes.

3) Mean while we will start gravy preparation, grind dry coconut to fine powder and keep it aside. If you are using dry coconut powder skip this step. Soak tamarind in hot water and keep it aside.

4) Heat 3 tsp of oil in a wide pan to this add garlic pods and fry it on low flames. When it starts changing  color add fenugreek seeds and cumin seeds. Fry till you get nice aroma.

5) Now add curry leaves, roughly chopped onions fry it on low flames till it changes color. Later add chopped tomatoes and mix it well, cook it for  5 minutes or till tomatoes becomes mushy by closing lid.

6) Meanwhile drain out buttermilk and squeeze buttermilk from bitter gourd. Add bitter gourd pieces in above onion tomatoes mixture and mix everything well. Cook this on low to medium flames till bitter gourd becomes smooth. 

7) Now add tamarind juice in above mixture and mix everything well.

8) Now add jaggery powder and mix everything well. Jaggery cut off  bitterness so d't forgot to add jaggery. 

9) Now add dry coconut powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and mix everything well.

10) Adjust water according to your consistency and mix well. Finally add finely chopped coriander leaves and cook it on low flames till gravy becomes thick.

That's it our kakarakaya pulusu/ Bitter gourd gravy is ready to serve. Serve it with hot steamed rice, dollop of ghee and papads. 

Tips

** Soaking bitter gourd in butter milk will cut off its bitterness.

** If you want you can deep fry or shallow fry bitter gourd pieces.

** Adjust gravy thickness according to your wish. 

** You can add dry coconut powder or dry coconut paste.

** Jaggery cut off bitterness and gives good taste, so d't skip adding it. 

** Do not use bitter gourd seeds, if they are hard.

Hope you liked this kakarakaya pulusu recipe, do check out other bitter gourd and related recipes from our blog & youtube  channel by just clicking links below pics..

                         kakarakaya podi / bitter gourd podi

                               
                                       stuffed bitter gourd

                sanna kakarakaya fry / tiny bitter gourd fry 

                            Hyderabadi kadhu ka dalcha(youtube link)

                                                            Lemon Rasam(youtube link)

                                                pudina charu / mint rasam

usirikaya charu/ Amla Rasam

Udupi saaru / udupi style rasam

lemon rasam

  Miriyala Charu / pepper rasam

                        Drumstick Rasam

                                

Sundakkai Vatha Kuzhambu || Usthikaya pulusu

                       
                             Mamidikaya pappu

Menthi akku pappu  

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Mango matka kulfi || Summer special mango matka kulfi without adding corn flour and condensed milk

 Mango matka kulfi is super delicious, creamy, rich frozen dessert. Summer means mango season, mangoes are favorite to almost everyone.  Kulfi is Indian ice cream that is prepared using cone shape molds. Kulfi that is prepared in matka - earthen pot is called matka kulfi. We can different varieties of kulfis & matka kulfi's, as summer started today I am mango matka kulfi without using condensed milk and cream. This is my version healthy  mango matka kulfi which my family loves a lot.  I did not used corn flour and condensed milk in today recipe. We can use corn corn flour or custard powder to get thickness to ice cream, do check out full recipe for my version. We prepare many recipes using raw mango and ripped mangoes. In that mango phirni, mango rice, almonds mango sandesh, mango cake are my all-time favorite recipes.

 Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this cool cool mango matka kulfi to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her baked apple to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                              

This month theme was suggested by Pavani who blogs at "Pavaniskitchen", do check out her easy oreo ice cream recipe. My partner for this frozen treats theme is "Renu" who blogs at "cookwithrenu", do check out her space for wonderful recipes from different regions. Renu gave me sugar and milk as secret ingredients inturn i gave her kesar and milk. I bookmarked her no churn coffee almond ice cream, and her latest farali aloo sabudana papad recipes to try in this summer. 

                                Mango Matka Kulfi 

Preparation time : 10 minutes

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 6 matka kulfis

Category : Desserts

Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Main ingredients :Mango

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Milk - 500 gms

Mangoes - 2 ( I used banaganapalli variety)

saffron/ kesar - 1/2 tsp

sugar - 1/2 cup

milk powder - 1/2 cup

*For grinding 

almonds - 15

cashews - 15

cardamom powder - 1 tsp

instant oats - 2 tsp

*to garnish 

finely chopped pistachios - 2 tsp

finely chopped almonds - 2 tsp

Instructions

1) Boil 1/2 liter full fat milk in a heavy bottomed pan on low flames, stir it middle till milk reduce to half.

 2) Mean while grind almonds, cashew nuts, oats and elachi to fine powder and take it into plate.

3) Add 2 to3 tsp of hot milk in saffron, mix it well and keep it aside.

4) Now add sugar, milk powder, above prepared powder in milk mix everything well without forming any lumps. When this mixture becomes thick switch off the flames and let it cool to room temperature.

5) When the above mixture becomes thick take it into mixture jar, to this add scooped or chopped mango pieces and grind it fine paste. 

6) Take this mango mixture in a wide bowl to this add saffron mixed milk and everything well. This mixture will be very creamy and thick. 

7) Now pour this mango cream in matka, garnish it with finely chopped pistachios and almonds. Now close the matka with silver foil or butter paper tightly by using rubber bands.

8) You can also pour mixture in kulfi molds too, if you do not have matka's or kulfi molds you can use any air tight containers too.

9) Now keep these earthen pots & kulfi mold or containers in refrigerator for 6 hrs. This time depends on your fridge check it before serving.

10) That's it our mango matka kulfi is ready, serve this immediately and enjoy with your friends and family. Hope You liked this recipe, do it try and share your views...

Thank you :) 

Sweet corn soup || Sweet corn veggie soup

Sweet corn soup || Sweet corn vegetable soup with step by step pics and tips.  This sweet corn soup is very delicious, comfort and soothing to have anytime. I made this soup healthy by adding veggies along with sweet corn kernels. We can use vegetables of your choice, today I used carrot, beans, spring onions greens & sweet corn kernels to prepare this soup carrot soup and spring onion, carrot badam soup are my all time favorite soups. 

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this soulful and healthy sweet corn soup to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her tomato carrot soup to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                              

          This month theme "HotPot" was suggested by "Priyer Iyer" who blogs at " thephotowali". She is very talented chef, I love all her recipes and photography a lot. I bookmarked her Indian style burger, Gujarati bhakri pizza to try soon. Do check her space for more healthy, traditional and many innovative recipes from many regions. My partner for this theme is "Swaty Malik" who blogs at "foodtrails25". Do check her space for wonderful recipes, surely you will love it. Swaty gave butter and garlic as secret ingredients in return i gave cinnamon and green apple as secret ingredients. I bookmarked Swaty's  star bread, chocolate mascarpone mousse soon. 

                                      Sweet Corn Soup

cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 2 people

Category : Soup

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : Sweet Corn

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Sweet corn kernels - 1 cup

carrot - 1

beans - 4

spring onion greens - 1/2 cup

butter - 1 tsp

ginger pieces - 1 tsp

garlic pieces - 1 tsp

green chilli - 1

salt - as per taste

pepper powder - 2 tsp

corn flour - 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Grind half cup of sweet corn kernels to fine paste.

2) Wash veggies, cut into small pieces and take into plate

3)  Add 1 tsp of butter in pan, to this add ginger and garlic pieces, fry till you get nice aroma and starts changing color.4

4) Then add all the veggies and half portions of spring onion greens till veggies becomes smooth.

5) Later add sweet corn paste and 1 liter of water and mix everything well.(adjust water accordingly )

6) Add required amount of salt and pepper powder to the above and boil it on low to medium flames.

7) Take 1/2 tsp of corn flour in a cup, add 1/2 cup of water and mix it well.

8) Add corn flour slurry into soup and mix everything well and  boil soup for few minutes. 

That's it our sweet corn veggie soup is ready to serve, garnish it with remaining spring onion greens and serve hot :)

Tips

** Adding veggies make this soup healthy.

** Adding corn flour gives good texture to soup.

** Adjust water as per veggies and sweet corn you used.

** You can also add 1/2 tsp of green chilli sauce in soup.

Hope you liked Sweet corn soup, also check other soup and starter recipes by just clicking the link below pic..

                                   

                                  carrot soup

       
                                spring onion carrot badam soup

                          Homemade butter

             

                             pomegranate raita

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White Sauce Pasta || White pasta shell Pasta || creamy white sauce pasta

White Sauce Shell Pasta || White Sauce pasta - it is very creamy, cheesy, aromatic and melt in mouth pasta recipe which is loaded with veggies. Sauce that is filled in shell pasta just burst in our mouth, you just cannot stop eating it. Many people think that preparing restaurant style Mexican recipes, Chinese recipes and other food recipes are very difficult to prepare at home. So they skip preparing at home and just order from outside. Trust me it is very very easy to prepare those restaurant style recipes at home. Coming to our recipe, pasta is one of favorite food to kids,  yes I am coming to your point not only kids everyone love's it 😍😍. This is the best way to make your kids to have veggies, as we can add veggies like carrot, capsicum, sweet corn, mushrooms, broccoli. This is perfect as starter in kids parties, they will just love and love to have it 💓. Do not blame that this pasta contains butter and loaded with cheese 😬, I personally feel it's okay to have all these on cheat days. Eat well in correct portions and do workouts💪, and let your kids enjoy all the taste. The main point is always use good quality pasta, today I used durum wheat semolina pasta and did not used any maida to prepare sauce. So do not worry just enjoy this creamy and cheesy pasta with your friends and family.  

Do check out few related recipes from my blog and youtube 

 Mexican nachos with cheese dip, 

Indo Chinese Crispy chilli honey potatoes(youtube link), 

Red sauce pasta ( youtube link )

Chinese Style - Veg fried rice

Pan fried mediterranean veggies ...

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this creamy and delicious white sauce pasta to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #276Kid'sTreat theme. By this time you are all aware that I am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme is suggested by one of favorite bloggers "Swaty Mailk" who blogs at "FoodTrails25". Check out her space for delectable and innovative recipes. You can learn many UP's regional recipes and also many fusion, baking recipes from different regions. Her photography and way of presentation inspires me a lot. Bookmarked her sev puri, Palak panner fried rice, Ragi chocolate cookies recipes to try soon..

                                     

                                                     White Sauce Pasta 

Preparation time - 15 minutes

Cook Time - 20 minutes

Serves : 2 persons

Course : main

Recipe Cuisine: Italian

Main ingredients : shell pasta 

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

To cook pasta

shell pasta - 1 cup( I used durum wheat semolina pasta)

oil - 1 tsp

salt - 1 tsp

water - 4 cups(adjust)

To saute veggies 

You can use veggies of your choice which I mentioned early, here I am using 

onion - 1

capsicum - 1/2

carrot -1 small or 1/2 large

sweet corn - 1/4 cup

finely chopped garlic - 2 tsp

olive oil - 1 to 2 tsp ( you can use normal vegetable oil)

pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

To prepare white sauce

butter - 3 tsp

whole wheat flour - 3 tsp

milk -2 cups(adjust)

pepper powder - 1 tsp

red chilli flakes - 1 tsp

mixed herb - 1&1/2 tsp

grated cheese - 1/2 cup (adjust according to ur taste)

salt as per taste

Instructions(will share step by step pics soon)

1) Boil 4 cups of water by adding 1 tsp of oil and 1 tsp of salt.

2)When water starts boiling add shell pasta(you can use any shape pasta) and mix everything well.

3) When pasta cooks 90% switch off flames and drain water completely and keep it aside. Do not throw pasta boiled water, we can use it in preparing sauce.

4) Now saute veggies, for this add 1 tsp of olive oil in a pan(you can use vegetable oil too) add finely chopped garlic and fry well till it starts changes color.

5) Now add all the veggies, 1/2 tsp of salt and mix it well. Add 1/2 tsp of pepper powder and fry it well, do not over cook veggies. Just fry till its raw smell goes away, you can skip adding pepper powder here. Veggies absorb that strong aroma of pepper if you add it while frying veggies. 

6) Keep fried veggies aside and prepare white sauce. For this add 3 tsp of butter when it melts add 3 tsp of whole wheat flour(you can use maida instead of wheat flour) and mix everything well till it starts changing color.

7) Now add milk little by little and mix well till you get thick sauce. Make sure that there is no lumps in sauce, If sauce is too thick use pasta cooked water. 

8) Now add grated cheese and mix everything well, our white sauce is ready now.

9) Now add salt, red chilli flakes, mixed herbs, pepper powder and mix everything well. 

10) Now add fried veggies and boiled shell pasta in sauce and mix everything well. Cook it on low flames for 3 to 4 min 

11) If you feel sauce is very thick you can add some more pasta boiled water. 

12) That's it our pasta is ready to serve.

How to serve white sauce pasta?

Spread one layer of prepared white sauce pasta on plate now add grated cheese then again spread remaining hot white sauce pasta. Sprinkle some red chilli flakes,  pepper powder and some mixed herbs. That's it our White pasta is ready to serve, serve it hot and enjoy with your friends and family.

Tips 

** Use good brand wheat pasta, to make it more healthy.

** Instead of olive oil you can use normal vegetable oil.

** Use equal portions of  butter and whole wheat flour..

** If your okay with maida you can replace whole wheat flour with maida.

** Do not overcook pasta, boil 90% . After boiling 5 min check pasta by cutting if you see white color then switch off the flames.

** As I used wheat flour we did not get white color to sauce.

Hope you enjoyed this "White sauce pasta" recipe. Also check some related and new recipes from my blog & YouTube channel by just clicking the link below pic..

                                       

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