Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, bottle gourd pulao. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Bottle Gourd Pulao is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Bottle Gourd Pulao is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Learn how to make Bottle Gourd Rice. Bottle gourd is known as sorakkai in Tamil, lauki or doodhi in Hindi and chorakaa in Malayalam. This is one of my favorite dish and I make this simple lauki pulao quite often and pair it with a spicy gravy.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bottle gourd pulao using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Bottle Gourd Pulao:

1. Make ready 3 1/2 cups Rice
2. Get 4 cups Bottle Gourd chunks
3. Get 2 tsp Salt
4. Take 2 tsp Red Chilli powder
5. Prepare 1 tsp Turmeric powder
6. Get 1 tsp Cumin powder
7. Take 1 tsp Coriander powder
8. Make ready 1 tsp Garam Masala
9. Prepare 1 tbsp Biryani Masala
10. Get 1 cup Curd
11. Get 2 tsp Ginger garlic paste
12. Prepare 2 Onions thinly sliced
13. Get 3 Tomatoes finely chopped
14. Get 1 small bunch Coriander Leaves finely chopped
15. Prepare 1 Sprig Curry Leaves roughly torn
16. Take 1/4 cup Oil
17. Prepare 1 tbsp Ghee
18. Prepare 2 Bay Leaves
19. Make ready 2 Cinnamon sticks small
20. Prepare 2-3 Green Chillies finely chopped

Bottle gourd or calabash is a delicately flavored, Cucurbita family vegetable. It is one of the chief culinary vegetables in many tropical and temperate regions around the world. Bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the Cucurbitaceae family. It is also called Calabash Gourd, Trumpet Gourd and Long Squash.

Instructions to make Bottle Gourd Pulao:

1. Heat ghee and Oil in a cooking pot. Add Bay Leaves, Cinnamon sticks and Caraway Seeds. Next add sliced Onions.
2. Saute onions with ginger garlic paste until light brownish in colour. Add slit green chillies along with the chopped tomatoes and cook until mushy and tender before finally adding the bottlegourd chunks. Also add Red Chilli, Turmeric, Cumin and Coriander powders.
3. Let them cook for 10 minutes on a low heat with a lid on. Do not add water. After 10 minutes, add beaten curd along with the biryani masala. Let it simmer on a low heat for about 6-7 minutes. Meanwhile cook rice al dente. Adjust salt accordingly both in rice and the bottlegourd mix.
4. After done, add rice to the pot and fluff it up very gently. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raita of your choice.

Bottle gourd curry recipe - One of the easiest bottle gourd recipes from Indian cuisine. This bottle gourd recipe is easy and quick to prepare, most convenient even for working folks. Calabash Gourd, White flower gourd, Doodhi, Dudhi, Ghiya, Lauki, What is Bottle Gourd? (Doodhi, lauki). It belongs to the gourd family- Cucurbitaceae and is a running or climbing vine. Bottle gourd can vary in size shape and length depending on how it is grown and when it is harvested.

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