Vegetable Stuffed Karela

Hi Friends

Today I am coming with a variety of dish ie Karela filled with vegetable stuffing.

Everybody knows that this veggie karela/bitter gourd is not liked by many because of bitterness. But this is one of  'good for you' vegetable as it has many health benefits and also used for medicinal purpose. Best remedy for diabetes. Diabetes patients take raw karela juice by the advice of the doctor. Having excellent source of nutrients, it will strengthen your immunity.

Coming to the point of bitterness of karela, using some recipes you can shift little of its bitterness. Today I am having 3 karela, potato and carrot in our fridge. I thought of  stuffing karela with vegetables.

Let us now go into the details.

Ingredients

• Karela                                      3 medium size
• Potato                                       1 medium size
• Carrot                                       2 nos
• Onion                                        1 big ( finely chopped )
• Green mirchi                              2  (chopped)
• Coarinder powder                     pinch
• Mint leaves                                1/4 cup
• Garam masala                           1/4 tbsp
• Fresh lemon juice                       1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

How to prepare

1. Wash karela thoroughly and wipe them dry.
2. Make a slit in the karela lengthwise keeping the base intact. Remove the hard seeds if any.
3. Take water in vessel. Add pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder and  2 leaves of tamarind and drop slit karela in that water.
4. Keep the vessele on the stove and setup to half boiled. It takes 5 minutes for karela to get half boiled.
5. Let it cool and squeeze it and keep aside.
6. Mean time cook potato and carrot pieces.
7. Take a pan add oil. Let it heat. Add chopped onion and green mirchi , let them fry for couple of minutes.
8. Then add mint leaves, stir well, add boiled and smashed potato, boiled carrot pieces.
9. Fry for a minute and add turmeric powder and salt. Mix well .
10. Finally add 1 tbsp of fresh lemon juice to this curry.
11. Now stuff  the kareala fully with this curry with your hands without breaking karela into halves.
12. Take a pan add oil. After heat the oil, add stuffed karela gently.
13. Fry them on low flame till they become crispy.
14. Remove with slotted spoon and keep on paper napkin.

Half boiled karela and curry for stuffing

Stuffed karela

Fried  stuffed karela

Serve with rice or roti and take as snack also..

My note

• It doesn't take much time to fry as the karela are half boiled and stuffed curry is already cooked.
• Always fry on low flame , if curry falls into oil, oil will spoil and burn.
• You can remove the outer layer of karela (the spiky bits) if you want.
• Boiling karela with salt and tamarind removes little bitterness from them.
• I didn't add curry leaves to curry as flavor of mint will goes off.
• You can use this curry for filling somasa for bread toast also..