Comments on: Bitter gourd fry(Karathe fry)

By: Soumya

Soumya — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:42:36 +0000

Hi,

I was looking for Karela receipe and saw u r post. I am going to prepare and hope it will be delicious. Keep posting some more receipes and thanks a lot.

By: Prezi

Prezi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:02:55 +0000

Hey,

i was looking for a Kerela fry recipe and bumbed into your site. I am just going to prepare it and hope that it comes out good.. Thanks a lot fr the recipe!

By: Robyn

Robyn — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:43:15 +0000

I am a little confused with all the different versions of this recipe. I am going to try this with some of the different versions. —If anyone can tell me different Punjabi recipes, I’d be so glad. I just married a Punjabi man and have never cooked any kind of Indian food before. I have gotten Gohbi, aloo mutter and aloo Methi and chicken Karahi.. I don’t need to look at those recipes anymore..but after a month of those being my ‘big’ Punjabi dishes, I think my husband will kill me if I serve them again! If anyone can give me different dish ideas THANK YOU (((and my husband thanks you too!)))

By: Anusha Vyas

Anusha Vyas — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:22:53 +0000

Hi Shilpa,
This is too good.I didn’t know such a dish until i found it in your site.your site is the best.

By: Veena

Veena — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:52:20 +0000

Thanks Shilpa.

By: Veena

Veena — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:34:06 +0000

I tried preparing this yesterday. Had bought white karathe. Kept it aside for 30-35 mins after adding salt as u had mentioned. Prepared the fry too as given above.. But the fry tasted so bitter that we could not even have a single piece.. Can u please lety me know what would have gone wrong. and wat needs to be done next time.

Shilpa: Did you squeeze out all the juice properly after your added salt and let it sit? If you want to remove all the bitterness(and with it all the nutritions), you can add some water to it and squeeze again. That way most of the bitterness goes off.

By: Chetna

Chetna — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:28:38 +0000

I saw yr recipe for Karathe kosumburi which is similar to the recipe I sent earlier. Forgot to mention, that I add green cjhillies to my version..

By: Chetna

Chetna — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:26:29 +0000

Try chopping the karathe into really fine pieces, apply salt and keep in a colander to drain the bitter water (altho it would be wise to collect this and drink – the bitter water does have health benefits for diabetics and small children). As children, we were forced to drink this by my mom, but somehow I began to love the taste of it, Anyway, to continue the recipe, squeeze out all the water. temper some oil with mustard, add these karathe pieces and keep frying until they turn brown and crisp. Add some sugar or jaggery and continue to cook. Lastly add finely chopped onions and coriander leaves… you will love karela for ever after this.. sometimes I also add a little besan while frying to amke it more like “Zhunka”..

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:31:18 +0000

Aruna, thanks for the recipe. I will try your version soon.
Thanks Vineela
LG, last time i went to Indian store, I bought 1 (the smallest one)bitter gourd, I was thinking, it will go waste and no one will eat any bitter gourd dishes. But for the first time, we liked the 2 dishes that I prepared. Since it was not possible to go to Indian store again (it is very very far), I used the chinese bitter melon .
Shynee, you have many very good recipes in your blog. only problem is the layout.

By: shynee

shynee — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:31:10 +0000

Thanx Shilpa for visiting my blog….Sorry that u had some incovnenience in reading the posts…unofortunately blogger has been giving me a lot of probs…publishing has become a pain now…Well,.let me see… I can now try your konkani style of cooking bitter gourd…thanx for sharing….