Bottle Gourd Rice
Bottle Gourd Rice

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bottle gourd rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bottle gourd rice (Lauki Pulao) is an easy and flavorful one pot meal. An excellent way to include bottle gourd in the diet. Bottle Gourd Recipes: Bottle gourd is known as Lauki and Calabash.

Bottle Gourd Rice is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Bottle Gourd Rice is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bottle gourd rice using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Bottle Gourd Rice:
  1. Make ready 1/2 Bottle Gourd chopped
  2. Take 1 1/2 cup sona masoori rice
  3. Make ready 2 3/4 cup water
  4. Take 2 tbsp oil
  5. Get 1 tbsp ghee
  6. Make ready Whole spices (Cinnamon, cloves, stone flower, 1 tsp fennel seeds)
  7. Make ready 1 1/2 onion thinly sliced
  8. Prepare 1 red chilly
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
  10. Get 5-6 stem coriander leaves
  11. Take 3-4 stem mint leaves
  12. Prepare 1 1/2 medium size tomato chopped
  13. Get 3/4 tsp red chilly powder
  14. Get Salt as required
  15. Make ready drops Few lemon

You can make a variety of dishes both sweet and savory with bottle gourd like kootu, dal, halwa. Cut the bottle gourd into pieces and keep aside. Now add fennel powder, chopped green chilies, bottle gourd, mint leaves, milk and cook with closed lid. Rice looks great,innovative idea,never thought of adding bottle gourd to rice.

Instructions to make Bottle Gourd Rice:
  1. Heat a pressure cooker with oil and ghee and temper with whole spices.
  2. Add onion and red chilly. sauté until it becomes very soft.
  3. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté until raw smell goes.
  4. Add coriander leaves and mint leaves. Sauté for few mins. Add tomato and sauté until it becomes soft. Add red chilly powder and salt.
  5. Add bottle gourd and sauté for few mins. Add water and mix it well. Add rice and finally add few lemon drops. Close the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
  6. Serve with any raita.

Bottle Gourd also known as lauki or doodhi is a vegetable that kids usually don't prefer to eat. Bottle Gourd, a vegetable which is used in almost all the Indian households. It is also called as Lauki, Ghia and Doodhi in North India, whereas it is called Sorekai in South India. It is an everyday vegetable which can be used to make sabzi, dal, pulao and many other dishes. You can also combine Bottle Gourd along with other vegetables to make it more flavourful and nutritious.

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