Skip to main content

Kakharu sakara

Kakharu sakara











 Kakharu sakra

Ingredients...

Ash gourd cut into cubes 1 bowl 

Jaggery 1cup

Red chilli powder 1 tsp

Turmeric powder ⅓ tsp

Red chilli 2

Mustard Cumin ½tsp

Fenugreek seed Fennel seeds 1 tsp

Curry leaves

Salt to t

Ghee 1 tsp


Preparations.....

In a pan add cut ash gourd pieces, salt and turmeric powder and add a little water just enough for the vegetable to get cooked. 

Remove ash gourd do not throw the left over stock, we use it later.


Heat pan add ghee when melting add hing, mustard, cumin, fennel and Fenugreek seeds fry well. 

Add curry leaves add left over gourd stock and then add jaggery stir well give a nice boil and then add boiled ash gourd cook until the gravy thickens. 

 Serve as side dish with any rice item. 

କଖାରୁ ସାକରା


Popular posts from this blog

Soya kebbab

  Ingredients.... 3 Plantains 1 cup Soya chunks 2 tbsp Besan 1 tsp GG paste 1 tsp Red chilli powder 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder 1 tsp aam chur powder ¼ tsp Turmeric powder 1 tsp Garam masala powder Salt to taste Oil  Few wooden Skewers Preparation.... Wash and soak soya nuggets in warm water. When it double in size, Squeeze and gently press the soya chunks between your palm to drain the excess water from it. Do this process 2 to 3 times for removing impurities if any. Put them in the grinder jar,add half of the soya nuggets at a time. Grind till small granules without using water.  Wash plantains with skin trim the tip and  stem. Boil plantains with excess water and remove the skin, cut and grind into roughly  without water. Add both nuggets granules and plantain on mixing bowl add all above spices and mix make a nice thick dough.  Keep this in refrigerator for 10 minutes.  Soak the skewers before making seekh kebbabs. Through this your skewers are not burn in any way. Now remove the
Read more
  This is my favorite form of chicken curry, not only because it tastes great but also because it requires very little work in the kitchen. Additionally, I always choose nutritious recipes based on what my family requires.     Here is my version of healthy saffron chicken curry...... Ingredients...... 1 bowl thick warm milk 1 pinch of saffron  1 Cup milk powder  1 tblsp Green chilli paste(spicy) 1 tbsp GG paste  1 tsp Fresh grounded garam masala  ¼ tsp Turmeric powder  ½ Cup malai ½ Cup desi ghee  Salt to taste    Preparations...... Take warm milk add saffron mix well cover and keep for later use. Churn the malai keep aside. Wash and trim off any excess fat from the chicken drumstick, this will not only enhance the flavor but also help the chicken cook more evenly. Keep in a mixing bowl.  Now first add salt and turmeric powder give a nice massage and rub the salt turmeric into the chicken slits.  Now add milk powder, GG paste, garam masala,green chilli paste ( before that you must rub
Read more

Munika Saaga Kanji

Drumstick leaves Kanji1 "KANJI" the most famous and an authentic well-known odia cuisine. This recipe has been serving by Odia people since ages. Mostly villagers were store Pakhala (Fermented rice) for at least one week by exchanging it's water again and again to  preparing kanji, jaau, chala or drinking clear Torani with adding few green masalas. My grandma always used to cook kanji in earthen pot . It tastes like heavenly food. I truly enjoyed  to cook kanji for my family because we all love to eat twice a day. I cook with drumstick leaves which is known as various names like Munika Saaga,Sajana saaga,Sehajan ki patiyan. So the recipe is here......... Kanji Ingredients : 2 Bowl Drumstick leaves 1 Bowl Pakhala Rice (mashed) 2 Bowl Clear Torani ( If you don't have Torani then use half cup of vinegar  or 1 tbsp of citric acid (lemon salt for better sourness ). For seasonings : 2 tbsp of Crushed Garlic ½ tsp of Mustard seeds ½ tsp Cumin s
Read more