Ghosale Upkari ( Ridge Gourd Stir-Fry).

Ghosale ( Ridge Gourd) is some other 1 of my father-in-law's favorite vegetables. My mother in law teases my father-in-law alongside a pocket-size poetry form that she has made connecting the days of the calendar week too his favorite vegetable to move cooked that day!

Ghosale aka Ridge gourd is also known equally Luffa or Chinese okra. It has unlike names inwards unlike parts of India. It is known equally Herekayi inwards Kannada, Adavi Beera inwards Telugu, Peechinga inwards Malyalam, Dodka inwards Marāthi too Turai inwards Northern Republic of Republic of India too so on. You tin abide by to a greater extent than herehttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa
This is some other 1 of the vegetables that is gentle on the digestive organization too tin move safely eaten when 1 is sick or is on whatsoever sort of elimination diet. It also is known to get got several medicinal values.

The stir child is slow too quick to brand too requires really few ingredients. This equally good is 1 of my favorites for weeknight dinners.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Ghosale ( Ridge gourd) :2 medium sized.
Mustard: 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds ( jeera): 1/4 tsp
Green chillies: 1-2 (as per your spice level) ( I purpose 1 when I am making it for my niggling ones.)
Coconut oil: 1 tsp. ( yous tin purpose whatsoever cooking crude oil of your preference, I purpose kokosnoot crude oil inwards mine).
Jaggery(molasses)/ sugar:1 tsp
Salt to taste.
Freshly grated coconut: 1 tbsp ( optional).

Method:

With a paring knife/ peeler,peel the ridges off the Ridge gourd.

Cut the ridge gourd (poddale) lengthwise twice.Then piece thinly horizontally so that yous get got ii cms long sparse slices too laissez passer on aside.

Slit the greenish chillies too laissez passer on aside.

Heat a sauté pan/ wok on medium heat,add 1 tsp kokosnoot oil. Now add together the mustard seeds.

Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together the cumin seeds, so the slit greenish chillies.

Now add together the sliced ghosale( ridge gourd) too sauté.Add a niggling fleck of tabular array salt too 1tsp sugar.

Reduce the flaming to low, encompass the pan too laid upward until the vegetable is soft plenty to eat. Generally takes nearly xv minutes.

Garnish alongside freshly grated coconut. Serve alongside rice / bread.

Cooking made easy:

Make certain yous laid upward on depression flaming equally yous wishing the vegetable to laid upward inwards it's ain juices. Increasing the flame, makes the fluid evaporate rapidly thereby increasing the chances of burning your vegetable.

Vegetables inwards the U.S.A. tend to get got higher H2O content too therefore exercise non require additional H2O to move added piece cooking. But if yous abide by the pan getting equally good hot or yous are inwards danger of burning the vegetable
then yous tin sprinkle some H2O too permit it laid upward to your desired marker of softness. It should non move mushy.

In India, for the to a higher house recipe, yous tin add together 1/2 to 1 loving cup of H2O equally needed. You tin also laid upward it inwards a describe per unit of measurement area pan. If yous are doing so, add together 3/4 loving cup of water, encompass too permit it laid upward on medium flaming alongside the describe per unit of measurement area cooker weight on, until yous listen ii whistles from the cooker. Turn the flaming off too weight for the cooker to laid upward downwardly completely earlier opening the lid. This is the describe per unit of measurement area cooker method for most vegetables to move cooked inwards India.

Cooking the vegetable inwards it's ain juices also has the payoff that nosotros don't lose much nutrients.

Tip for good for yous living:

"Activity, activity, action ", this is the mantra for good for yous living. When yous are physically active, yous automatically dismiss calories. This is particularly truthful for the elderly too retired people. When yous move yous automatically move, walk too leave of absence of the house. Whereas subsequently retirement, most people don't abide by the necessity to leave of absence of the house. This significantly limits the sum of physical activity. You get got to abide by reasons to leave of absence of the solid atleast 1 time a day. Find materials to exercise around the house.This volition larn your joints moving. The to a greater extent than active yous are, the meliorate yous volition be.

Food for thought:

To err is human; to forgive is divine.( Alexander Pope).