Pakarkai Poriyal / Bitter Gourd Stir Fry

   Bitter Gourd, as the name itself says its bitter, its hard for many of us to add that in our meal. So how to make kids eat them? How do we make it delicious and healthy, for who are diabetic? Bitter gourd, not only helps in lowering blood glucose, but also helps from some non-communicable diseases. Its proven to help in treating cancer. Apart from that, its shown that it reduces hypertension. Also it helps weight loss. Oh, ya.. here we come to yumm bitter gourd stir fry recipe. My kids love to eat them like this.

Ingredients:

Bitter gourd - medium size 4 nos.

Oil - 4-5 tsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp or to your taste

Salt - to taste

Procedure:

• Clean bitter gourd and cut them lengthwise. Remove seeds, its easy to remove when you slit them lengthwise. Cut into small semi-circles.... 

• In a wide pan, coat a layer of oil, heating it. Please maintain low medium heat. Add the cut bitter gourd pieces.

• Stir them once, so that every piece of vegetable is coated with oil. 

• This is how it looks like after 5 min.

• Stir them for every 5 min(now total 10 min in pan)

• At this time, in another 5 min sprinkle salt. Since the salt fastens the cooking, reduce the heat some more, because, it should not burn the vegetable. If necessary add oil as required., may be a teaspoon or two.

• In another 5 min stir them again check whether its done.. At this stage its ok to taste them.. I would like to cook further for another 5 min, so it will become crispy.

• Finally add chilli powder to taste and toss them, after switching off the heat, since chilli powder will burn in that heat.
• Aaha, its read to eat crispy..

Tip: 

This recipe would take 25-30 minutes to cook in medium low heat.. So just start your meal cooking with this bitter gourd first. When its getting cooked, we can take care of other recipes too.