Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, shukto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook shukto using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Shukto:
- Prepare 1 bitter gourd
- Get 2 drum sticks
- Take 1-2 sweet potatoes
- Get 1 raw banana
- Make ready 1 brinjal
- Get 1/4th of a raw papaya
- Take 1 cup or hand full vadi (urad Dal)
- Take 1 tbspn mustard seeds
- Get 1 teaspn Poppy seed
- Take 1/2 teaspn celery seeds
- Prepare 1 wole red chilli
- Get 1/2 tea spoon turmeric powder
- Take To taste salt
- Get To taste sugar
- Prepare 2-4 tbspn oil
- Get 1- 1/2 cup water
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.
Steps to make Shukto:
- Cut all the vegetables into cubes
- Make a paste of mustard and Poppy seed and keep aside
- Fry the vadi in a heated pan with oil and keep aside
- Now add oil to the pan and fry the bitter gourd keep aside
- Now add celery seeds and a little bit of mustard seed along with the red chill
- Add all the veg slices except bitter gourd fry well.
- Add salt and turmeric and fry well.
- Add water and cover it.keep it on low flame
- Add bitter gourd and the fried vadi at this stage
- Once vegetables get soft add the mustard and Poppy seed paste,sugar and stir well.
- Now remote it from heat and serve it with steaming 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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