Bitter Gourd Yogurts Salad. Fried Bitter Gourd in Yogurts. Karela Raita. Kakarkkai Perugu Pachadi. Pavakkai Pachadi.

Ingredients:

Bitter Gourds – 3 medium size
Yogurts 2-3 cups
Oil for frying.

To Wet-Grind These:

Fresh grated coconut 3-5 spoons
Green chilies 2-3
Salt
Yogurts 1/4 cup.

For Tempering:

Oil few spoons
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few.

Method:

Trim their ends off the bitter gourd. Then slice then thinly.

Heat oil in a shallow wok. Deep fry bitter gourd slices. Fry till they are dark brown to black and crispy.

Leave them over kitchen tissues for a while.

Now wet grind coconut, green chili, salt and 1/4 cup of curd.

Combine fried gourd and wet-ground above paste in yogurd. Mix them well.

In a shallow frying pan…heat oil and add sesonning items and wait till they pop.

Then run this above sesonning over mixed beets-yogurts set-up.

Serve chillied or at room temeprature as a side dish.