Shukto (Mixed Veg. Curry with Bitter Gourd - Bengali Style) | How to make Shukto (Mixed Veg. Curry with Bitter Gourd - Bengali Style)
- Prep Time
10
mins - Cook Time
25
mins - Serves
4
People
3
1
4
About Shukto (Mixed Veg. Curry with Bitter Gourd - Bengali Style) Recipe
Shukto is a traditional Bengali cuisine and is considered as a delicacy. This is a mixed vegetable curry which has a fair amount of bitter gourd in it. It is cooked into a mustard and milk based gravy. It is mildly spiced with the addition of one whole dry red chilli and tempered with Panch Phoron, the popular Bengali five spice. Drumstick, french beans, eggplants and carrots too can be added. It is served with hot steamed rice at the beginning of a full course meal as it is believed that the bitterness helps in purifying the blood.
Ingredients to make Shukto (Mixed Veg. Curry with Bitter Gourd - Bengali Style)
- 1 cup radish, diced
- 1 cup green plantain, diced
- 1 cup green papaya, diced
- 7-8 broad beans, chopped into half
- 1 cup yam, diced
- 1 small potato, diced
- 1/2 cup bitter gourd, sliced
- 2-3 tbsp. mustard oil
- 6-7 vadi (dried lentil dumplings)
- 1 whole dry red chilly
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp. panch phoron (equal quantity of fennel, mustard, cumin, fenugreek & nigella seeds
- salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp. mustard paste / kasundi
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp. ghee
- 1 tsp. sugar (opt)
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