Bitter Gourd Chutney

Recipe By:
Shiv3
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  • Yield 6 Servings
  • Level Medium

A simple chutney made of bitter gourd.
 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup bitter gourd
  • 1/2 cup red onions (madras)
  • 6 green chillies (finely chopped)
  • A sprig of curry leaves
  • Size of a lime tamarind
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger (finely chopped)
  • 1/2 cup concentrated salt water
  • 60 ml coconut oil (or refined oil)
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Directions

  1. 1. Put finely chopped bitter gourd into some salt water and knead it several times.
  2. 2. Collect pieces of gourd and squeeze out salt water by hand.
  3. 3. Put gourd into a vessel along with finely chopped onions, green chillies, ginger and curry leaves.
  4. 4. Make a tamarind pulp solution with 1/4 cup concentrated salt water and tamarind and add it to other ingredients. Mix well.
  5. 5. Add oil and mix again.
  6. 6. Take two 30.5 cm (about 12") pieces of aluminium foil. Put the mixture into one of the pieces and make it into a small flat packet.
  7. 7. Fold this packet again in the other piece of foil and tie it two or three times with string.
  8. 8. Bake the packet for 5 hours in hot ashes from which, glowing cinders have been removed.
  9. 9. Put a few cinders over ash to keep ash warm.
  10. 10. After 5 hours take the packet out, unfold and when cool bottle in clean bottles.
  11. 11. N.B. The packet can be placed under a grill and turned over several times till done. Traditionally, banana leaves are used instead of aluminium foil.