Shukto

Ankita Basu Saha
Ankita Basu Saha @ankitab123
Toronto

Shukto is a very special dish for all bengalis. Normally it as part of lunch only. It is cooked using ingredients like vegetables, milk and very few spices. Shukto is best enjoyed with steam rice.
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Shukto

Shukto is a very special dish for all bengalis. Normally it as part of lunch only. It is cooked using ingredients like vegetables, milk and very few spices. Shukto is best enjoyed with steam rice.
#grandma
#ebook (post 11)

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Ingredients

20 mins
4 people
  1. 1medium size potato
  2. 1bitter gourd
  3. 1sweet potato
  4. 2big drumsticks
  5. 1/4 pcsraw papaya
  6. 4-5 pcslong beans
  7. 1raw banana
  8. 7-8 pcsdal vadi
  9. 1 pcbay leaf
  10. 1 tbsppoppy seed paste
  11. 11/2 tspginger paste
  12. 1/2 tspcelery seeds or radhuni
  13. 1 cupmilk
  14. 1 tspmaida
  15. 1 tspsugar
  16. 1/2 cupwhite oil
  17. 1 tspghee or clarified butter
  18. To tasteSalt

Cooking Instructions

20 mins
  1. 1

    At first cut all vegetables in rectangular strips or 2-3 inches length. Like these pictures. All the vegetables need to wash well and keep it aside.

  2. 2

    Take a bowl, add maida into the milk and mixed it well.

  3. 3

    1st boil potato, sweet potato, drumsticks and raw papaya into boiling water. Boil it for 4-5 mins. Take out all vegetables from boiling water and keep the water for later use.

  4. 4

    Heat oil in a kadai. Fry vadi 1st, then fry long beans and raw banana together. Then fry bitter gourd separately.

  5. 5

    In the same oil, add bay leaf and radhuni. Wait for few seconds. Now add ginger paste, stir it for 1 min, then add poppy seed paste. Cook it till raw smell is gone. Add boiled vegetables.

  6. 6

    After adding boiled vegetables, add salt and sugar. Mixed it well. Pour the vegetable stalk. Cover the lid and cook it for 5 mins. As it’s already boiled, it will not take longer time to cook. After 5 mins, open the lid and add fried vadi, long beans, raw banana, bitter gourd. Again mixed it thoroughly. Cook it until all veggies are completely boiled.

  7. 7

    Now add milk and ghee. Give it a quick mix. Cover the lid and again cook it for 3-4 mins. Switch off the flame. Serve it with steam rice.

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