Kakarakaya pulisu Recipe is a soup with fried onions and other spices.This variety is very popular in Andhra..
Ingredients:
- Kakarakayalu/bitter guard or karela-4
- onion-1
- green chillies-2
- tamarind-lemon size ball
- Mustard seeds-1/4 spoon
- ginger garlic paste-1 tea spoon
- curry leaves-1 spring
- turmeric powder-1/4 tsp chilli pwd
- Dhaniya powder-1 spoon
- jeera -1/4 spoon
- Jeera powder-1/4 spoon
- Jagger y(grated) or sugar-2 Tbsp
- salt-To taste
- Oil- As required
How to Prepare:
- Wash and remove seeds from kakarakayalu or bitter guard, cut the bitter gourds into medium sized pieces or circle shape or semi circle shaped pieces.
- Take oil in a pan, add mustard seed and zeera. when they splutter, add onions. Fry onions for a while and then add ginger garlic paste.
- Now add curry leaves, green chillies and cut karela pieces.Saute karela(kakarakaya) for 5 min's.
- Take tamarind to a bowl add some water, extract juice from it.
- Now add salt, turmeric powder,coriander powder,zeera powder and red chili powder. Mix well.
- Now add extracted tamarind juice. Mix well, add some water and cook on a slow flame with cover lid for 10 min's.
- Add jaggery or sugar. Cook untill it reaches to gravy consistency or pulusu consistency.
- Add coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice.
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