Growing up, Ridge gourd was not a vegetable I liked to eat. I have always known Amma making a dal with this, though I never complained, somehow managed to eat without making a fuss. After marriage, when I made that dal, I got strong opposion from hubby dear for this. Reason being that that dal can never be spicy. Amma even now fondly says that she can’t make it as well as her mom did. So Ridge gourd doesn’t find itself much on our table. So imagine my surprise when Athamma re introduced this as Kura. Give a vegetable to Athamma and she is bound to come out with either a kura or a chutney.
Since hubby dear has no problem in eating this vegetable as kura, we started including this again. We call anything without dal in it as kura and normally taken with chapatis, though it tastes great with rice too. As its chapatis for dinner without fail, making curry with different vegetable makes my life easy. So every 15 days once, we find ourselves peeling a ridge gourd for dinner. Amma also used to prepare a chutney with the Ridge gourd peels. And I remembered the chutney while cooking with the vegetable.
Amma normally prepares that tokku or chutney when she peels off too much of the skin. Since the dal doesn’t really require so much skin, the peel finds itself changed into a chutney. And that’s what we did too!
This is a very simple one. You can ingredients like Cumin, Coriander seeds. But we have not included any of those.
Ingredients needed:
Ridge gourd Peels – 1 cup
Onions – 1 small
Tomato – 1 small
Red chillies – 4-5
Tamarind – 1″
Salt to taste
Oil – 1 tsp
Beera kaya Kura, Bitter gourd stir fry, Ridge gourd peel Chutney with Rice ~ our dinner!
Method to prepare
Wash and wipe the ridge gourd. Peel the skin off the Ridge gourd. Chop the other vegetables.
Heat a pan with oil. Sauté the onions, tomatoes, Red chilies and finally the peels. Let it get fried well.
Remove and let it cool. Once cooled, add the salt and tamarind and grind to a smooth paste.
This goes excellently with chapatis or hot rice with ghee!
25 comments
Hi Srivalli
It was a pleasure seeing you today..Really we had lost track of each other..Lets be regular now..
I missed many lovely posts of yours,..Not any more 🙂
Take care
Swati
A great alternative to cocnut chutney.
Ridgegourd is a not something we like, but we like this chutney.
But then what do I do with the inside? So I steam it and add it the chutney! I make mine without the tomato.
that sounds really unusual – a chutney with the peel? what do you do with the insides?
Simple pachhchadi without any popu…?? Should try…,.Btw, kaakarakaya vepudu looks very yummy..))
Oh ya, my ammama used to make this beerakaya tokku koora Valli.. and nenu ane danni ‘tokku ni kooda vadalava ammama ani’.. hehehe.. looks yummy …
*sob face*.. today is the last day for RM..hope we cud chat up regularly in OUR group irrespective of whether RM is ON or OFF.. what say gurls??
Hugs,
Siri
made use of the peel..looks lovely…
Love this chutney Valli.BTW I like ur gravy in the side too.
Hi…
My mom used to do this. Ur looks YUM!… Nice recipe to try. Loved the combo of roti with it.
Hi sri!!!the platter looks delicious..even i love the ridgegourd peel chutney..i havent made it but i remember my aunt made it many times and i relsihed it..so good to have with idli and dosas!!
I also want to add even i feel bad that the marathon is ending today…i sure enjoyed being a part of the team:)
This chutney looks delicious….I also make ridge gourd chutney,but its slightly different than this..
Valli, never touched ridge gourd when it was abudantly available now I search and search but can’t find any 🙁
Well,well as for hubby dear was the way it was prepared that made him eat or who it was prepared by that made him eat, check with him Disclaimer: I am not trying to create family problems here. Trust me. 😉
Chutney is delicious, only time i get to eat ridge gourd is when I am in India, miss them so much.
I like the chutney. I’ve never used rg like this.:D
Nice pachadi. Ridgegourd happens to be my pop-in-laws fav. Might make this next time he’s visiting us.
BTW have a surprise for u on my blog 🙂
such a tempting plate srivalli..
hope you recovered from illness…i could’nt call u as i was busy.
I ve tasted in my friend’s house this chutney… What a wonderful Marathon u ve done! I admire all who participated with good spirit!
Have never had ridgegourd chutney, you guys are master in making chutneys out of all veggies, would love to taste some
how to make Beera kaya Kura?,pls post the receipe
Swati, yes looks like time just flew and we have not kept up with each others blogs..will check on yours regularly now!
Aparna, thats a great one..will try that out next time
Arundathi, but not so with Andhra..this is quite a common one…we either make a gravy with the inside one!
satya, yeah quite simple..thank you!
Siri, glad you remembered your granny!..:)
indo, heheh..that happens right…hahahah…actually its both..pappu becos it was quite bland..next kura as it was prepared by his mom…don’t worry I have had many arguments on this account already!
Rachel, thank y ou!
kamala, thank you..will post that soon!
Sukanya, thank you!
ranji, yeah this goes well with dosas!..not to worry on the RM..we can always mail
Hetal, yeah do try and let me know!
TBC, then I recommend you do..its great!
Madhu, yeah thats bad that you don’t get them over there…
Gaurav, heheh..try for him then…thanks for the thought
Lavi, yeah thank you..feeling much better now!
Sandeepa, hhehe…yeah as I said..give a veggie to my mother in law and you will have a chutney ..:)
Cham, thank you..glad we had support!
bharathi, thanks for the comment..will post it sometime soon!
I love this chutney, Valli! I also make it, but a little differently. Will try your version next time. Looks delicious! 🙂
Thanks for the submission! I learned a new method for preparing ridgegourd. I usually just make a light soup of it with shrimp.
Kalai, sure do try and let me know!
WC, soup with RG..thats great..thanks for hosting this event!
Very interesting. I love the idea of not wasting the peels!
i was just going through rest of the recipes on ur blog and hit on this…looks yummy…will give it a try…
we prepare the same pachadi in a little different way..try it and let me know if you liked it.. 🙂