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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Pakistani

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. wash bitter gourds and remove scaly skin with a potato peeler + rub with a little salt + brown sugar. Put aside for 1 hour. | 2. (p.s. make sure not to peel off too much skin - it just shouldn't look green any more). | 3. Heat oil. | 4. Add onions + all spices apart from the tamarind juice. | 5. Sauté. DON’T burn the onions. | 6. When tender, remove from oil and drain the mixture. | 7. Cool. | 8. Rub off excess salt+ sugar mixture from bigger gourds or wash off and pat dry with paper towels. | 9. Make a slit down the bitter gourds lengthwise – remove the seeds + stuffing but don’t discard. | 10. Stuff ½ the onion mixture inside + add the seeds (only add very little if you don’t like a very bitter taste- u can also place a little tamarind juice inside each bitter gourd). | 11. Bind by wrapping with thread so no stuffing escapes and fry the karela till golden brown. | 12. In separate pan, add the remaining onion mixture + tamarind juice + a little oil + stuffed bitter gourds. | 13. Cover and simmer 10 minutes Serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
bitter melon	1			-	-	-	-
red chili powder	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
turmeric powder	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coriander seed	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.682	0.4949	0.1113	0.1599
fennel seed	1	teaspoon		6.9	1.0458	0.316	0.2974
nigella seed	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
ginger garlic paste	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
tamarind juice	1/2	cup		71.535	18.4861	0.113	0.1506
salt				-	-	-	-
onion	4		chopped	240.0	56.04	6.6	0.6
string				-	-	-	-
oil				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.