Lemony Bottle Gourd Soup
Lemony Bottle Gourd Soup

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lemony bottle gourd soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemony bottle gourd soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemony Bottle Gourd Soup:
  1. Get 1/2 small bottle gourd, roughly chopped
  2. Take 1 onion, sliced
  3. Get 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  5. Get 2 bay leaves
  6. Take to taste salt
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper powder or to taste
  8. Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  9. Take 1/2 tsp. red chili powder
  10. Take 1 tsp roasted coriander-cumin powder
  11. Take 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
  12. Make ready 8-10 kaffir lime leaves
  13. Prepare coriander leaves & chili flakes to garnish (opt)
Instructions to make Lemony Bottle Gourd Soup:
  1. Heat oil in a pan and saute the bay leaves for a few seconds. Add the onions and fry till light brown.
  2. Add the ginger-garlic paste and all the dry spices mixed with 1/4 cup water. Saute till oil separates.
  3. Add the bottle gourd and the kaffir lime leaves. Combine well and pressure cook in 2 1/2 cups water for 3-4 whistles.
  4. When cool, discard the bay leaves and lime leaves. Preserve few bottlegourd pieces to garnish.
  5. Puree the same and heat through. Serve, garnished with the bottlegourd pieces, coriander leaves and chili flakes.

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