Bitter Gourd Chips

Name: Bitter Gourd Chips
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 bitter gourds thinly sliced, unpeeled; 1 potato peeled & thinly sliced (optional); 1 tbsp rice flour; 1 tbsp gram flour (besan); 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 1 tsp red chilli powder; To taste salt; As needed oil for deep frying

Pratima Mohanty @cook_13984189

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Normally many of us don't like bitter gourd for it's bitter taste. But if it is taken in the form of chips you would like to have it by munching one by one. Moreover, bitter gourd chips taste delightful when accompanied by potato. Adding potato gets it's bitterness less.

Pratima Mohanty @cook_13984189

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Ingredients

10 minutes

2 servings

2bitter gourds thinly sliced, unpeeled
1potato peeled & thinly sliced (optional)
1 tbsprice flour
1 tbspgram flour (besan)
1/2 tspturmeric powder
1 tspred chilli powder
To tastesalt
As neededoil for deep frying

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Steps

10 minutes

1

To start with rinse the bitter gourd and potato slices well.
2

Take them in a mixing bowl. Add rice flour, gram flour, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt.
3

Mix everything well. If required, sprinkle just a few drops of water so that all slices are coated well with masala mixture.
4

Heat oil in a deep pan/ kadai for deep frying. Once hot, add masala quoted bitter gourd & potato slices to the oil, slice by slice, in batches.
5

Fry on medium low flame on both sides till they turn golden and crisp. Remove them from oil and place on absorbent paper to drain excess oil.
6

Serve them garnished with fried red chillies as a tea time snack or as a side dish with lunch.