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Lau Bori Ghanta ( Bottle Gourd with dried lentil dumplings)

Lau Bori Ghanta is a very famous traditional Bengali vegetarian delicay where bottle gourd/lau/lauki is slow cooked with minimal spices to no spices along with bori or sun dried lentil dumplings in its own juices/ fluids. Its a healthy, yet amazingly delicious in taste. This particular recipe of my mom's has 2 added ingredients that is milk and fresh coriander leaves which adds more freshness and juiciness to this dish

  • Prep time:
  • 10mins
  • cook time:
  • 30mins
  • serves:
  • 3-4

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Vegetarian

Level : Easy

Cuisine : Bengali

Course : Mains

Recipe Notes

Make sure that you peel off the skin of bottle gourd and do not wash after shredding the bottle gourd. It turns out to be bitter.

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  • Veg
  • Main Course
Ingredients

Ingredients For Lau Bori Ghanta ( Bottle Gourd with dried lentil dumplings)

Methods
  • 1. Wash properly. Peel off the skin and cut the bottle gourd into thick shredder pieces and set aside
  • 2. Meanwhile fry the boris (dried lentil dumplings) well.
  • 3. Now take a heavy bottom kadai. Add mustard oil. Let it heat up. Add bay leaf, cumin seeds, dry deseeded red chilli into the kadai. Let it crackle.i
  • 4. Now add the shredded bottle gourd and 1 whole green chilli into the kadai. Make sure the flame is on low. Add pinch of salt and stir for about 2mintues. Put on a lid and let it slowly cook for 10 minutes on low flame.
  • 5. Now put off the lid and stir for a while on low flame. Again put on the lid and let it slow cook on low flame till it becomes mushy and cooked.
  • 6. Once the bottle gourd is cooked add sugar , a pinch of tumeric and 1/2 cup milk. Cook continuously while adding. milk.
  • 7. Finish off with freshly chopped coriander. Serve it with hot steaming rice.
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