Bitter Gourd Soup

By Mullai, on April 24th, 2007 7:14 pm

Description

If you have diabetes, this is an ideal appetizer for you. When you’re eating too much hot and oily stuff, this soup seems to cool down your body system. It’s a great soup to add to your daily meals or at least twice a week. Wonderful recipe which I happened to learn from my mom. Use your imagination, add in a couple of veggies to reduce the bitterness and to enhance the taste. Notoriously bitter of all vegetables, so, I have added lots of ripe tomatoes (canned) to make it more like tomato soup, but not really necessary.

Ingredients-1
1 no	Bitter gourd (big)
1 no	Onion (roughly chopped)
3 nos	Tomato (ripe and juicy)
3 clove	Garlic (crushed)
2 pinch	Turmeric powder
1 tsp	Coriander /dhania powder
¼ tsp	Black pepper powder
¼ tsp	Salt (or to taste)
2 cup	Water

Ingredients-2
½ tsp	Butter or ghee
5 nos	Curry leaves
¼ tsp	Cumin seeds

Instructions

Wash and cut bitter gourd into half and scoop off the seeds with a spoon and then slice them into thin pieces , roughly chop the onion, crush the tomatoes and garlic. Put all ingredients from table-1 in a pan and bring to a boil, simmer for 10 minutes until all veggies are cooked thoroughly. Strain the content and serve the soup with toast or any bread.

Another variation to this recipe is to heat little ghee or butter and splutter curry leaves and cumin seeds. Add this to the simmering soup and then strain.