Comments on: Bittergourd/Okra gravy (Karathe/bhende sasam)

By: bhagi

bhagi — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:57:16 +0000

hi shilpa

You can eat gojju with rice, bread chapathi etc

By: bhagi

bhagi — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:55:03 +0000

hi shilpa

It is called gojju which has sweet and tangy taste.

One can make gojju with bittergourd, tomato,egg plant, okra and fruits like oranges, pineapple etc.

Season the vegetble with mustard, jeera , methi hing chillies and turmeric with little oil and stir fry. When it is cooked add tamarind juice and rasam powder, salt and brown sugar (all for your taste) and cook until it boils garnish with cilantro. You can eat this rice ,bread chapathi etc

By: Leena Udhayakumar

Leena Udhayakumar — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:42:18 +0000

Hi Shilpa :

i love Karela, can you give me some receipes for Karela esp the one prepared in south india which has a sweet and tangy flavour, not sure of the name. Thanks

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:19:37 +0000

Vastevu, thanks a lot for your wishes. I do hope that I can continue this for as much as I can. when I started this site, I heard about a Konkani site which is no more now. But I don’t know any more details about it. There are few Konkani books which I have seen many people using. But I don’t have any. Initially I had started this to post recipes from my mom only. But I kept on including other recipes because people started putting requests. Its a great way of learning for me. Thanks for your support. I greately appreciate it.

By: Vastevu

Vastevu — Sat, 05 May 2007 00:12:10 +0000

You are right Shilpa, this dish is made with vegetables and not fruits as from childhood I grew up Sassam Dish memory associated with Fruits/Sweet/spicy/mustard and could not think some other dish exists with the same name.
Since you have very busy schedule, I hope your blog continues for many years as it is very popular in seach engines and appears usually first during recipe search. 4-5 years ago, there was a very good Konkani recipe site by Sunita Pai Mizar out of Napavalley,CA on geocity website, and then it disappeared after Yahoo took over. One of her recipe by her mother “Amma’s Chicken Curry”
http://geocities.com/NapaValley/3925/ was very delicious and I and my friends made several times. I believe she is in Boston area but do not see in Konkani Blog pages of recipes. May be I am guessing wrong.

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:08:45 +0000

Vastevu, You are talking about ambe sasam which is different from this. I am not sure why this dish is called sasam. It tastes great though.

By: Vastevu

Vastevu — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:03:29 +0000

This is a strange type of combination of two differnt tasting vegetables recipe labeled as “Sassam’. In Konkani, Sassam means mustard seed in literal meaning. But in this type of “sassam” labelled dish,mustard is not sputterd in hot oil for flavor but the black mustard seeds are ground with coconut, red chilli and tamarind as this is served cold (even refrigerated) with any fruits such as Aambe-Avanaas(mango/pineapple) sassam during summer months. To clear my doubt I referred to American Konkani Association cookbook, in Mango-pineapple saasam(Sweet-spicy Curry) by A.K.A., she recommends making this type of masala with mustard seeds and refrigerate before serving. This recipe is usually a treat to guests during wedding as this can be an expensive dish with alphonso mangos and pineapples.

By: Shilpa

Shilpa — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:30:16 +0000

Babita, I am sorry, I didn’t get your comment. I have mentioned this is made with either bhindi(ladyfinger, okra) or karela(bittergourd). you can use any one of them for this dish.

By: babita

babita — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:00:12 +0000

hi shilpa
used bhindi to bittergourd where as this is call karela and bhindi is call ladyfinger in north india.
thanks

By: Varsha

Varsha — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:29:53 +0000

THANKS!!!!!