Laubeshwari or Bottle Gourd Sabzi

Name: Laubeshwari or Bottle Gourd Sabzi
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 500 gms bottle gourd chopped finely; 2 tbsp Gobindo Bhog Rice; 1/2 cup milk; 7-8 urad dal or any other dried lentil dumplings; 2 tbsp coconut scraped; 2 tsp ginger and green chilli paste; 1/2 tsp mix of kalonji, methi and mustard seeds; 2-3 tbsp Mustard oil; To taste salt; 2-3 tsp sugar; 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter; 2 green chillies slit; 1 dry red chilli

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Laubeshwari or Lau Ghonto is a traditional Bengali veg recipe of bottle gourd cooked mainly during the hot summer months and relished with plain steamed rice in lunch.It is a lost and rare recipe in Bengali cuisine but tastes delicious. The main ingredients in this recipe are finely chopped bottle gourd, fried lentil dumplings (bori),milk,scraped coconut and Gobindo Bhog Rice paste. The aroma of gobindo bhog rice alongwith a drizzle of ghee makes this unique dish all the more flavourful.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

30 minutes

4 servings

500 gmsbottle gourd chopped finely
2 tbspGobindo Bhog Rice
1/2 cupmilk
7-8urad dal or any other dried lentil dumplings
2 tbspcoconut scraped
2 tspginger and green chilli paste
1/2 tspmix of kalonji, methi and mustard seeds
2-3 tbspMustard oil
To taste salt
2-3 tspsugar
1 tspghee / clarified butter
2green chillies slit
1dry red chilli

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Peel and slice lauki or bottlegourd.Chop finely into matchsticks pieces.Wash and drain water completely in a strainer.
2

Meanwhile grind gobindo bhog rice in a mixer grinder.Add milk and make a paste of it.Set aside.Heat 1 tbsp mustard oil in a pan or wok till smoky.Reduce flame and fry dumplings in medium flame till light brown.Set aside. In the same pan,add 2 tbsp more oil and heat it till smoky.Temper it with 1 dry red chilli, kalonji (nigella),methi (fenugreek) and mustard seeds.
3

When they splutter,add chopped bottle gourd and sprinkle salt to taste.Mix well.Cover and cook on medium flame till bottle gourd softens and releases water.Add scraped coconut,ginger green chilli paste,fried lentil dumplings,ground rice flour paste alongwith milk and sugar to taste.
4

Now cover and cook till gravy becomes thick and dumplings become soft.Cook in low to medium flame, stirring occasionally till done.Drizzle ghee and mix to combine all. The taste will be mildly sweet and salty.Garnish with slit green and dry red chilli.Serve it with steamed rice.