Kuvale Sasam ( Ash Gourd/Wintermelon Cooked Inward Mustard Flavored Kokosnoot Sauce)

Kuvale ( Ash Gourd or Winter Melon) is 1 of my favorite vegetables. It is non exclusively delicious, it is expert for the body. It soothes the digestive system. Apart from Kuvale puli koddel, some other mutual together with pop dish made yesteryear konkani GSBs amongst this vegetable is kuvale sasam. It is a rattling uncomplicated together with humble dish made yesteryear adding cooked ash gourd pieces to a sauce made yesteryear grinding together coconut, carmine chillies, tamarind together with a few mustard seeds. The sauce should non survive spicy.It is absolutely delicious. You tin compass the sack also swallow 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 carmine chillies: three 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 together with allow it create until tender ( commonly takes roughly 10-15 mins).

In a blender/food processor/mixie, grind together freshly grated coconut, tamarind, dried carmine chillies to a fine paste. When the glue is close done, add together 1/2 tsp mustard seeds together with pulse twice.

Add the solid pose down glue to the cooked ash gourd/Wintermelon/kuvale. Mix good together with convey it to a boil. Turn off the flame.

Tempering:

In a small-scale frying pan, rut 1 tsp kokosnoot oil. Add mustard seeds. When the seeds splutter, add together curry leaves. Turn off the flame. Add this to the to a higher house pot.

Serve hot amongst rice/roti.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Whenever yous create vegetables that induce got a high H2O content, brand certain that yous create non add together also much water. Just add together plenty H2O then equally to assistance the cooking process. Otherwise, the additional H2O given off yesteryear the vegetable volition brand your sauce also thin, watery together with tasteless.

In representative yous create terminate upwardly amongst a lot of H2O later cooking the Wintermelon , take some of the liquid together with piece of occupation along aside earlier adding the solid pose down paste. You tin compass the sack ever add together the reserved liquid to the pot depending on the preferred consistency of the sauce.

Tip for salubrious living:

If yous induce got a upset tummy, trying mixing a pinch of common salt together with hing ( asofoetida) into a loving cup of buttermilk together with drinking it. This helps settle the tummy. ( This is non for people who are lactose intolerant)!

Food for thought:

The creation of a G forests is inwards 1 acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson