Kuvale ( Ash Gourd or Winter Melon) is ane of my favorite vegetables. It is non exclusively delicious, it is proficient for the body. It soothes the digestive system. Apart from Kuvale puli koddel, some other mutual as well as pop dish made past times konkani GSBs amongst this vegetable is kuvale sasam. It is a real uncomplicated as well as humble dish made past times adding cooked ash gourd pieces to a sauce made past times grinding together coconut, ruby chillies, tamarind as well as a few mustard seeds. The sauce should non last spicy.It is absolutely delicious. You tin also consume it similar a stew.
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
Ash gourd/Wintermelon/ kuvale: 1 lb slice.
Water: 1/2 loving cup + 1/2 loving cup for grinding.
Freshly grated coconut: 1 cup
Dried ruby chillies: iii medium sized ones.
Tamarind: marble sized if dry; 1/8 tsp if using the pulp.
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp+ 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves : 1 sprig
Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Method:
Cut the ash gourd/Wintermelon/kuvale into medium sized pieces. Add the pieces to a pot, add together 1/2 loving cup water, 1/2 tsp common salt as well as allow it gear upwards until tender ( unremarkably takes around 10-15 mins).
In a blender/food processor/mixie, grind together freshly grated coconut, tamarind, dried ruby chillies to a fine paste. When the glue is virtually done, add together 1/2 tsp mustard seeds as well as pulse twice.
Add the solid position down glue to the cooked ash gourd/Wintermelon/kuvale. Mix good as well as select it to a boil. Turn off the flame.
Tempering:
In a pocket-sized frying pan, oestrus 1 tsp kokosnoot oil. Add mustard seeds. When the seeds splutter, add together curry leaves. Turn off the flame. Add this to the inward a higher house pot.
Serve hot amongst rice/roti.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Whenever you lot gear upwards vegetables that conduct keep a high H2O content, brand certain that you lot produce non add together likewise much water. Just add together plenty H2O as well as thence every bit to assistance the cooking process. Otherwise, the additional H2O given off past times the vegetable volition brand your sauce likewise thin, watery as well as tasteless.
In illustration you lot produce halt upwards amongst a lot of H2O afterwards cooking the Wintermelon , take some of the liquid as well as operate along aside earlier adding the solid position down paste. You tin ever add together the reserved liquid to the pot depending on the preferred consistency of the sauce.
Tip for salubrious living:
If you lot conduct keep a upset tummy, trying mixing a pinch of common salt as well as hing ( asofoetida) into a loving cup of buttermilk as well as drinking it. This helps settle the tummy. ( This is non for people who are lactose intolerant)!
Food for thought:
The creation of a K forests is inward ane acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson