25-Minute Lauki Sabzi (Step By Step)
25-Minute Lauki Sabzi (Step By Step) is a flavorful curry. This blogpost include how to cut the vegetable properly. It's an easy recipe.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 39kcal
Ingredients
- ¼ cup olive oil or any neutral oil
- 1 medium onion finely sliced
- 1 serrano pepper (green pepper) roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 bottle gourd lauki
- 1 tomato roughy chopped
- ½ cup water
Whole spices
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- a small cinnamon stick
- 8 black peppercorns
- 2 cloves
- 3 green cardamoms
- 1 black cardamom
- 1 long dried red pepper
Salt and powdered spices
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
Garnish
- 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp mint finely chopped
Instructions
- In a medium size skillet or pot, on medium heat, add oil, and let it heat up.
- Add whole spices and let it sizzle for 5 seconds.
- Now add onion and Serrano pepper.
- Sauté the onion until the onion is translucent.
- Add ginger garlic paste and sauté that for 10 seconds.
- Now add tomato and mix.
- Add powdered spices and salt.
- Mix well.
- Now add Bottle Gourd (Lauki) give it good mix for 1 minute.
- Next add water and mix.
- Place the lid on.
- Let it cook on medium for 15 minutes or until bottle gourd (Lauki) is fully cooked.
- Take the lid off.
- Give it a good mix.
- Add lemon juice.
- Garnish with some mint (optional).
- Serve it with a fresh chapati.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1person | Calories: 39kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 150mg | Potassium: 45mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 106IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 1mg