Shukto

Name: Shukto
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup raddish, diced; 1 cup green plantain, diced; 1 cup green papaya, diced; 7-8 broad beans, chopped into half; 1 cup yam, diced; 1 small potato, diced; 1/2 cup bitter gourd, sliced; 2-3 tbsp mustard oil; 6-7 bori (lentil dumplings / mangodi / vadi); 1 whole dry red chilli; 1 tsp panch phoron (equal quantity of fennel, mustard, cumin, fenugreek & nigella seeds; 2 bay leaves; to taste salt; 1/2 tsp turmeric powder; 2 tbsp mustard paste / kasundi; 1/2 cup milk; 1 tsp ghee; 1/2 tsp sugar (opttional)

Bethica Das @kitchen_flavours

Sharjah (UAE)

#Navratrisatvikfood - Shukto is a traditional Bengali cuisine and is considered as a delicacy. This is a mixed vegetable curry which has a fair amount of bitter gourd in it. It is cooked into a mustard and milk based gravy. It is mildly spiced with the addition of one whole dry red chilli and tempered with Panch Phoron, the popular Bengali five spice.

Drumstick, french beans, eggplants and carrots too can be added. It is served with hot steamed rice at the beginning of a full course meal as it is believed that the bitterness helps in purifying the blood.

Bethica Das @kitchen_flavours

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Ingredients

1 cupraddish, diced
1 cupgreen plantain, diced
1 cupgreen papaya, diced
7-8broad beans, chopped into half
1 cupyam, diced
1small potato, diced
1/2 cupbitter gourd, sliced
2-3 tbspmustard oil
6-7bori (lentil dumplings / mangodi / vadi)
1whole dry red chilli
1 tsppanch phoron (equal quantity of fennel, mustard, cumin, fenugreek & nigella seeds
2bay leaves
to tastesalt
1/2 tspturmeric powder
2 tbspmustard paste / kasundi
1/2 cupmilk
1 tspghee
1/2 tspsugar (opttional)

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Steps

1

Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a pan and fry the bori till golden brown in colour. Drain and keep aside. In the same oil fry the sliced bitter gourd till light golden brown and keep aside.
2

Heat the remaining of the oil and temper with the dry red chilli, bay leaves and the panch phoron.
3

After it stops spluttering, add the chopped veggies and saute on low flame for 5-7 minutes till light brown. Add 11/2 cups water, fried bori, salt and turmeric powder.
4

Cover and cook on low flame till the veggies turns soft and the gravy is slightly reduced. Now add the milk, ghee, sugar and mustard paste. Simmer for 2-3 minutes and serve with steamed rice.