Shukto.
You can cook Shukto using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Shukto
- Prepare 1 cup of raddish, diced.
- Prepare 1 cup of green plantain, diced.
- It's 1 cup of green papaya, diced.
- Prepare 7-8 of broad beans, chopped into half.
- Prepare 1 cup of yam, diced.
- Prepare 1 of small potato, diced.
- It's 1/2 cup of bitter gourd, sliced.
- You need 2-3 tbsp of mustard oil.
- It's 6-7 of bori (lentil dumplings / mangodi / vadi).
- It's 1 of whole dry red chilli.
- Prepare 1 tsp of panch phoron (equal quantity of fennel, mustard, cumin, fenugreek & nigella seeds.
- It's 2 of bay leaves.
- You need to taste of salt.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
- You need 2 tbsp of mustard paste / kasundi.
- It's 1/2 cup of milk.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ghee.
- It's 1/2 tsp of sugar (opttional).
Shukto step by step
- Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a pan and fry the bori till golden brown in colour. Drain and keep aside. In the same oil fry the sliced bitter gourd till light golden brown and keep aside..
- Heat the remaining of the oil and temper with the dry red chilli, bay leaves and the panch phoron..
- After it stops spluttering, add the chopped veggies and saute on low flame for 5-7 minutes till light brown. Add 11/2 cups water, fried bori, salt and turmeric powder..
- Cover and cook on low flame till the veggies turns soft and the gravy is slightly reduced. Now add the milk, ghee, sugar and mustard paste. Simmer for 2-3 minutes and serve with steamed rice..
