Bottle gourd/ ghia, peas & potato curry

Bottle gourd/ ghia, peas & potato curry

Bottle gourd almost ½ kg peel & chop fine

Peas ½ cup

Potatoes 1 big cooked & chopped( as I always boil some potatoes & keep in the fridge it comes handy to use whenever I need it) potatoes can be boiled & kept with the skin in the fridge for a week to 10 days if you store in the top tray.

Onion 1 small chopped fine

Salt & chili pdr to taste

Oil 2 tsp

Cumin or jeera 1 tsp

Method

1)      in a microwave safe dish, I first cooked & kept bottle gourd & peas.

2)      Heat oil, add cumin, keep for 90 seconds.

3)      Add onion, wee bit of salt & micro high for 2 minutes.

4)      In case you don’t have boiled potatoes, then you may cut & add potatoes, gourd & peas at this stage, add salt, sprinkle little water, cover & micro high for 3 minutes.

5)      Stir well, keep for another 3-4 minutes till the veges ( if you’re cooking now) are almost done. In case you use cooked veges, then sauté potatoes with onion adding chili pdr to taste for 2 minutes.

6)      Then add cooked gourd & peas along with salt to taste, mix well & micro high for 2-3 minutes.

This can be done in the same way on the gas too. But as you know we’re going to shift shortly, so want to save my last gas cylinder for another month & hence cook more in the microwave, it not only saves me gas, but also time, as I cook something else in the gas in the mean time.

Tips- bottle gourd is supposed to be very good for diabetic patients. This combo tastes good, as my hubby also finished the vege I had sent to his office or else he’d have got some back !

Bottle gourd 1 cup, grind & drink its juice early morning on empty stomach, when taken regularly, helps to get rid of breathlessness !