Stuffed Kareila

Cooking time : 30 minutes

Serves 6-8

Ingredients:

1 kg bitter-gourd
1/2 kg minced beef or mutton
3 onions , cut into thin slices
4 cloves of garlic crushed
1 inch piece of garlic crushed
2 tbsp fresh coriander
2-3 fresh green chilly
1 tbsp red chilly powder
2 tsp. salt
oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Peel of the bitter-gourd, make a long cut in it and take out all the seeds.Sprinkle salt in and out of the bitter-gourd and put it aside for at least two hours. Wash the bitter-gourd with plenty of water and rinse them softly.
2. Cook mince meat with one onion, one tomato, garlic, ginger, one tsp red chilly powder and one tsp. salt.
3. Fill the mince meat in each bitter-gourd, sew it with needle and thread. Deep fry them on medium heat until they turn golden.
4. Cook one onion, one tomato, one tsp. chilly powder, one tsp. salt and half cup of water. Cook it over low heat for ten to fifteen minutes or until the onion and tomato gets soft. Mash it with the back of a wooden spoon to make gravy. Add one fourth cup oil in the gravy and cook from three to four minutes.
5. Put the fried bitter-gourd in the gravy and cook for five minutes.
6. Garnish it with tomato, onion , Green chilly and coriander leaves.