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Home » All recipes » Bottle Gourd curry cooked in milk | Sorakaya Palu Posina Kura

Bottle Gourd curry cooked in milk | Sorakaya Palu Posina Kura

Published: Mar 6, 2013 · Modified: Sep 13, 2019

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Curry’s cooked in milk (Palu Posina Kura) is fairly a common method used in Andhra cuisine. The vegetable i used today is Bottle gourd (Sorakay/Doodhi). Bottle gourd is cooked in garam masala, ginger, red chilly powder and simmered in milk. This gives the curry a very intersting sweet and spicy taste.
 
This curry can be eaten with Chapathi and rice.
 

 

Recipe:

 

Ingredients:

  1. Bottle gourd (Sorakaya/Doodhi) – 2 cups (peeled and cut to bite size pieces)
  2. Milk- ¾th cup
  3. Ginger- ½ inch, chopped fine
  4. Garam Masala – ¼th to ½ tsp
  5. Red chilly powder- ½ to 1 tsp
  6. Turmeric powder- ¼th tsp
  7. Coriander leaves for garnish
  8. Salt to taste

Tempering ingredients:

  1. Oil – 1 tbsp
  2. Mustard seeds- ½ tsp
  3. Chana dal – ½ tsp
  4. Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
  5. Few curry leaves and
  6. Asafatedia- a pinch

Procedure:

  • In a skillet do the tempering by adding the oil. When it gets hot add the chana dal, cumin seeds and curry leaves. Fry for few seconds and add the ginger and Asafatedia
  • Add the bottle gourd pieces, turmeric and some salt. Mix and close the lid.
  • Cook till the bottle gourd gets soft, stirring in between.
  • Add the garam masala and red chilly powder .Cook for another two minutes.
  • Add the milk, reduce the heat and cook for another ten minutes.
  • Finally adjust the salt and finish it off with coriander leaves.
 
 
 

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  1. Nikhila Kethireddy

    May 22, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Do you know how many calories per serving it contains?

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      May 22, 2013 at 8:37 pm

      Not sure.sorry!

      Reply
  2. Divya Pramil

    March 07, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    I make this too and I love anything in coconut milk 🙂 Looks so delectable!!

    Reply
  3. Julie

    March 07, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    Yummy curry dear,healthy too!!
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  4. Priya Elias

    March 07, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    Looks so good Madhavi 🙂 And love the pics too!

    Reply
  5. Sebeena Loyd

    March 07, 2013 at 5:01 am

    i have never tasted doodhi with milk. it is yummy…..right

    Reply
  6. Sanoli Ghosh

    March 07, 2013 at 9:06 am

    We are normally prepare bottle gourd like this way. Very tasty and lovely dish for Summer. Lovely.
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  7. Divya Shivaraman

    March 07, 2013 at 1:47 am

    sounds different….will try it sometime

    Reply
  8. Hema

    March 07, 2013 at 7:42 am

    tempering mein jeera nahi dalna hai?

    Reply
    • Madhavi K

      March 07, 2013 at 2:11 pm

      Dalna to hai!

      Reply
  9. Vidya Chandrahas

    March 07, 2013 at 5:28 am

    Dish looks delicious…this is new to me…sounds interesting.

    Reply
  10. Sangeetha

    March 06, 2013 at 11:40 pm

    haven’t tried/tasted this paal kootu, preparation sounds interesting n yummy..will try it sometime 🙂
    neat presentation n pics!

    Reply

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