Monday, 6 April 2015

KAIPPAKKA KONDATTAM, BITTER GOURD VATHAL

Bitter gourd is very good for health especially those who are suffering from diabetes.  This juice is very useful in controlling the sugar.

Bitter gourd vathal is made and stored in airtight container during summer.  This is used to make varuval or vathal kuzhambu during rainy season when  vegetables are scarce.  Most of the vathals, vadams, pickles are made during summer and stored by Indians during  summer. 

Let us look at the recipe now how to make this vathal.  In malayalam, it is called kondattam.



Ingredients:

1 kg bitter gourd
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp salt
water

Method:

Wash and trim the ends of the bitter gourd.  cut into roundels not very thin or very thick.
Boil water in a big vessel, add salt, turmeric powder.  put the cut bitter gourd in it and cook.  the pieces should be cooked but not mushy.  drain the water, cool it and spread it on a plastic sheet and sun dry the same till it becomes crispy.  store it in airtight container.

How to serve:

you can deep fry and serve with sambar rice, rasam rice, curd rice 
You can make vathal kuzhambu

similarly you can make cluster bean kondattam.



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