Bottlegourd Thalipeeth
A healthy, crispy, delicious thalipeeth with mixed flours and bottlegourd. Makes a complete meal by itself.
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Bottlegourd Raita (Lauki Raita)
Few months ago, our friend Mahi had invited us for dinner and she made this lauki raita along with many Andhra special dishes. I had never tasted this before. After coming home, I googled it and I realised it was a pretty popular dish. This is my version. Bottlegourd or lauki is one of the …
Bottlegourd-Black Peas Sidedish
Most of the people like to plan way ahead for dinner/lunch. Somehow, that never worked with me. So most of the time, I end up combining some unusual ingredients to make a dish. This was one such combination that I had never seen before. I use bottlegourd (lauki/gardudde) a lot these days. I wanted to …
Buttermilk gravy(Majjige huLi)
I am having one of those days when I want to stay away from the blog as much as possible. I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the amount of work and dedication required to keep up with things. I have many recipes in drafts which I could post, but I find …
Bottlegourd sweetdish (Gardudde paays)
Wish you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi. Bottlegourd is called gardudde in Konkani. According to Ayurveda, this vegetable has many medicinal values. It is supposed to be very good for digestion. Yoga guru Shri Ramdev keeps talking about the importance of this vegetable in many of his shows. Many people take juice of this …
Bottle gourd burfi(Gardudde khadi)
We call Bottle gourd as ‘Gardudde‘ in Konkani (there are other names also). ‘Dudde‘ is pumpkin, I wonder if it is related to pumpkin in someway?? I loved these burfis from my childhood. I would go on eating a half-dozen of them at a time. I think the color of these largely depend on the …