For this week's CCChallenge I made this simple and healthy ridgegourd or Turaii curry. Ghee makes this curry more flavorful but if you don't like ghee you may use oil also
This recipe of a very healthy curry with ridgegourd was learnt from a dear friend. RidgeGourd. A very good cook herself she told me about this healthy curry
Today I have posted a North Indian style Ridgegourdcurry. I started to explore varieties of ridgegourd recipes (Ridgegourd in English, Turai/Luffa/Torai in Hindi, Peerkangai in Tamil, Beerakaya in Telugu, Hirekai in Kannada, Peechinga in Malayalam, Ghiya Tori in Urdu ) in my kitchen
Ridgegourd is fibrous so mature gourds are best left to be used as loofahs later. Most backyard gardens and our markets are full of different varieties of gourds at this time of the year
We make chutney, dal, dosa and also curry with ridgegourd skin. As I told in my previous post we make best use of some vegetable's skin like ridgegourd, bottle gourd
This thought of cooking prawns with ridgegourd and potato was instant. The other day I got some fresh prawns from the market and thought of preparing a very light curry with it using minimal spices
At last add chopped coriander leaves and curry leaves. Add peeled and chopped ridgegourd,(finely chop ridgegourd to help cooking it faster) add 50 ml water and put the lid on and cook till the ridgegourd is cooked completely. Smash the ridgegourd and add 50 ml of milk, bring to boil once
But this curry is completely different when I heard through one of my friend that they use to prepare mutton curry with Ridgegourd and also she told me to give a try
