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Recipes> Sindhi Food> Sauel Bhaji> Karela Basar> Bhindi
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Introduction
Like the potato, onions are also the most consumed
vegetable of Sindhi Kitchen and very essential
part of sindhi food. Beside the normal use of
onion sindhi people are used to prepare many
dishes from the onion, in combination of several
other vegetables and even with fish. Basically
these food stuffs are known as Sauel Bhaji, which
is signatory sindhi vegetable in which onion is
used as major ingredient and often named after the
other vegetable used like Karela Basar and Bhindi
Basar [onion] etc. |
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Important Tip
The basic preparation method is almost the same whoever
there is a bit difference in the ways of getting the
ingredients ready for the cooking. For example Karela
[Bitter Gourds] are peeled off and kept salted for few
hours say 4-6 hours to reduce the bitterness of the
vegetable. |
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Karela (Bitter Gourds)
Basar
Most of the people took the salted Karela, silt to take
off the seeds, and put in the masala and ginger paste
inside the cavity thus formed and tide it with thread.
Half boil them with oil and water in fry pan or even on
hot plate [Tava] and use with onions. Some other people
fry Karela in oil and use the same oil for onions. |
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Bhindi (Ladies Finger)
Basar
Most of people cut the Bhindi [Lady Finger] into long
pieces and make a slit to check out the presence of
worms etc. put in mixture of salt and red Chillies and
use with onion. A few people fry Bhindi till it turns
slightly dark and then use with onion. |
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Cooking Process
The basic method is onions are sliced and cooked with a
bit say half tablespoon of oil, sliced tomato, chopped
green Chillies, a pintch of ginger paste and salt to
taste till getting pink in color. At this stage second
vegetable is added and mixture is cooked with turmeric
powder, coriander powder and garam masala to get
homogenous vegetable with soft and brown colored onions.
For the Machhi [Fish] Basar, fish is used either after
boiling or after frying only. |
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