Mouth-watering Snake Gourd Recipe

Narkel diye chichinga/ Snake gourd with coconut

In West Bengal, you can get the maximum verities of vegetables in all the seasons. There are so many varieties of vegetables you won’t get anywhere except in Bengal. One of them is snake gourd, which is a very nutritious veggie. It helps to detoxify the kidneys, improves heart function, fights anxiety and depression, and strengthens the respiratory process. Tiny pieces of coconut are stir-fried with small pieces of potato and snake gourd using limited or without using spices; this makes Mouth-watering Snake Gourd Recipe. It is a very simple and easy but healthy recipe.

The equipment requires

• A frying pan
• Spatula
• Serving plate

Ingredients

• Snake gourd 300 gm
• Potato-1
• Coconut-1/4^th of a normal size coconut
• Red chili-1
• Cumin seeds -1/2 tbsp for tempering
• Turmeric powder-1 tbsp
• Oil-1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

How to Make Mouth-watering Snake Gourd Recipe

Cut the coconut into very small pieces with the help of a knife, and cut the potatoes in small dice shapes.

Cut the snake gourd in lengthwise half, and then slice it into small sizes.

Take a Kadai, heat oil, and add half tbsp cumin seeds and red chili for tempering.

Once they sizzle and settle down, then add small pieces of coconuts and stir fry for two minutes.

After two minutes add the potato pieces and stir them for 3-4 minutes.

Then add the snake gourd pieces.

 Add salt.

Then add turmeric powder.

Sauté them, for 2-3 minutes.

Then cover the lid and allow them to cook for 5 minutes on low flame.

Now open the cover after five minutes and stir them for one or two minutes.

Now check, all are boiled properly or not

If done, take them off from the oven.

Transfer them to a serving plate

Serve hot with rice or roti.

Mouth-watering Snake Gourd Recipe

. Tiny pieces of coconut arestir-fried with small pieces of potato and snake gourd using limited or withoutusing spices; this makes Mouth-watering Snake Gourd Recipe. It is a very simpleand easy but healthy recipe.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Bengali, Indian

Servings 4

Calories

Equipment

• A kadai or a fry pan
• Spatula
• Serving plate

Ingredients

  

• 300 gm snake gourd
• 1 potato
• 1 fresh coconut
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 red chili
• 1 tbsp  turmeric powder
• 1/2 tbsp cumin seeds
• salt

Instructions

 

• Cut coconut into very small pieceswith the help of a knife, and cut the potatoes in small dice shapes.
• Cut the snake gourd in lengthwisehalf, and then slice it into small sizes.
• Take a Kadai, heat oil, and add half tbsp cumin seeds and red chili for tempering.
• Once they sizzle and settle down,then add small pieces of coconuts and stir fry for two minutes.
• After two minutes add the potatopieces and stir them for 3-4 minutes.
• Then add the snake gourd pieces.
•  Add salt.
• Then add turmeric powder.
• Sauté them, for 2-3 minutes.
• Then cover the lid and allow them tocook for 5 minutes in low flame.
• Now open the cover after fiveminutes and stir them for one or two minutes.
• Now check, all are boiled properly or not
• If done, take them off from theoven.
• Serve hot with rice or roti.