Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, shukto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Shukto is a traditional and popular Bengali dish made during festivals and special occasions like kitty party, potluck, buffet and on a family get-together. This delicious recipe is liked and loved by the people of all age group. Shukto is a Bengali Mixed vegetarian dish comprising of several veggies & Bong's have it as part of Lunch with rice especially on auspicious occasions For more recipes related to Shukto checkout Bharwan Karela, Karele Ka Salan, Karela Aur Aam Papad Ki Subzi, Karele ki Sabzi.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook shukto using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Shukto:
- Make ready 1 medium size potato
- Make ready 1 bitter gourd
- Take 1 sweet potato
- Make ready 2 big drumsticks
- Get 1/4 pcs raw papaya
- Get 4-5 pcs long beans
- Make ready 1 raw banana
- Take 7-8 pcs dal vadi
- Make ready 1 pc bay leaf
- Get 1 tbsp poppy seed paste
- Prepare 11/2 tsp ginger paste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp celery seeds or radhuni
- Prepare 1 cup milk
- Take 1 tsp maida
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup white oil
- Make ready 1 tsp ghee or clarified butter
- Make ready To taste Salt
Among all the types of shukto the most popular one is the dudh shukto, here milk. Shukto is a traditional dish from the Bengali cuisine prepared with very minimal spices and combined with all the vegetables. Shukto is a mix of vegetables with an emphasis to the bitterness, is a preparation where instead of hiding the bitterness, it is the taste that actually the dish evolves. Shukto which people from opar bangla or Bangladesh call shuktoni is actually the result of Portuguese influence from colonization in the pre British era when the use of milk in a savory vegetable dish was tried.
Instructions to make Shukto:
- At first cut all vegetables in rectangular strips or 2-3 inches length. Like these pictures. All the vegetables need to wash well and keep it aside.
- Take a bowl, add maida into the milk and mixed it well.
- 1st boil potato, sweet potato, drumsticks and raw papaya into boiling water. Boil it for 4-5 mins. Take out all vegetables from boiling water and keep the water for later use.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Fry vadi 1st, then fry long beans and raw banana together. Then fry bitter gourd separately.
- In the same oil, add bay leaf and radhuni. Wait for few seconds. Now add ginger paste, stir it for 1 min, then add poppy seed paste. Cook it till raw smell is gone. Add boiled vegetables.
- After adding boiled vegetables, add salt and sugar. Mixed it well. Pour the vegetable stalk. Cover the lid and cook it for 5 mins. As it’s already boiled, it will not take longer time to cook. After 5 mins, open the lid and add fried vadi, long beans, raw banana, bitter gourd. Again mixed it thoroughly. Cook it until all veggies are completely boiled.
- Now add milk and ghee. Give it a quick mix. Cover the lid and again cook it for 3-4 mins. Switch off the flame. Serve it with steam rice.
The fried lentil dumplings or bori is another delightful part of Shukto which adds a nice bite to the dish. I remember as a child I used to Shukto: Why Can't Bengalis Start Their Meal Without This Bitter Medley Of Vegetables Shukto is a bitter and pungent stew of vegetables cooked in mustard oil and spiced with paanch phoron, ginger paste and chillies. Its the first thing that gets wiped off the plate and is usually served with rice. This Shukto recipe is Excellent and find more Great recipes, tried & tested recipes from NDTV. Shukto Shukto is a mix of vegetables with an emphasis to the bitterness, a preparation where instead of hiding the bitterness , it is the taste around which the dish evolves.
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