Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, shukto(healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
In this shukto recipe, apart from bitter gourd, drum sticks, raw bananas, raw papayas, sweet potatoes, beans, brinjals, potatoes are used, even a few more vegetables can be added in this bengali dish, i.e, raddish, ridge gourd, etc. Lentil dumplings or dal er bori is one more important ingredient for making this traditional shukto or sukto recipe. Shukto is a traditional Bengali vegetarian dish which is actually e a mix veg recipe.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shukto(healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings) using 25 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings):
- Prepare 2 raw bananas chopped
- Take 1/2 cup raw papaya chopped
- Prepare 1 small brinjal chopped
- Get 7-8 flat beans chopped
- Get 7-8 urad or matar dal dumplings (bori)
- Get 1 bitter gourd (karela) sliced
- Take 1 tbsp ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tbsp mustard paste
- Make ready 1 tsp poppy seed paste
- Prepare For Dry roast
- Prepare 1 tbsp Mustard seeds
- Prepare 1 tbsp Fennel seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
- Get 1-2 dry red chillies
- Get 1 tsp paanch phoron or
- Prepare 1/2 tsp mustard
- Prepare 1/4 tsp methi
- Get 1/4 tsp radhuni
- Get 1 pinch hing
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Make ready 2 tbsp milk
- Take 3 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1 tbsp ghee
- Prepare 1 tbsp scraped coconut
- Get To taste salt and sugar
I remember as a child I used to Shukto is a aunthentic Bengali dish. It served right after shaag bhaaja and before the Daal. It is a curry which carriers a milky taste in it. First of all , we have to cut all the vegetables.
Steps to make Shukto(Healthy mixed veg with lentil dumplings):
- There are options of adding other seasonal vegetables like sweet potato,drumsticks, radish etc.
- Dry roast mustard,fennel and methi and dry grind it and store.1 dry red chilli may also be roasted and ground.Heat oil and fry the dumplings and set aside.Also fry the bitter gourd in little oil and set aside.Heat more oil and stir fry all vegetables separately.
- Sprinkle methi, mustard, radhuni and 1 broken red chilli.When they splutter add hing.Now pour all fried vegetables except brinjal and bitter gourd.Toss and add water.Add salt and sugar to taste.Boil till cooked.Add ginger paste,then mustard and poppy seed paste.Add coconut and 2 tbsp milk.Now add the bitter gourd and brinjal and the dumplings and boil few minutes.When done sprinkle dry roasted masala and 1 tbsp ghee.Serve as first course meal with rice.Other items follow after serving shukto.
Method: Peel the potato, raw banana/plantain (kanch kola. Sukto is a vegetable medley prepared in Bengali household. It consists an array of vegetables. Bitter gourd is the main ingredient of this dish and the other vegetables in this recipe are pumpkin, plantain, sweet potato, ridge gourd, drumsticks, eggplant and raw papaya. Dried lentil dumplings (badi) is also a important ingredients for making sukto.
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