Shukto
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Shukto is a popular Bengali dish which is served as a first course in a Bengali Platter.It is basically a mixed vegetable curry which contains potato, brinjal, bitter gourd, green plantain as its main ingredients. Apart from this you can also add sweet potato, papaya, rich gourd, drum sticks, etc.
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Ingredients
- Bitter Gourd – 100 gm
- Brinjal – 100 gm
- Potato – 100 gm
- Green Plantain - 100 gm
- Drumstick - 2
- Bori Urad dal dumplings - urad dal soaked, make paste and put in the shape of dumplings and sundried - 7 to 8 nos
- Green Chilli - 2 to 3
- Ginger paste – 1 teaspoon
- Mustard Paste – 11/2 teaspoon
- Cumin powder – 2 teaspoon
- Radhuni - 1 teaspoon
- Milk – ½ cup
- Ghee - 1 teaspoon
- Mustard oil – 1/4 cup
- Dry Red Chilli – 1 or 2
- Salt
- Panch Phoron powder Panch Phoron contains fennel seeds, fenugreek, cumin, nigella seeds, radhuni (Dry roast and grind in mortar & pestle) - 1 teaspoon
- Sugar - 1 teaspoon
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Instructions
- Cut all the vegetables in elongated manner and make pieces of drumsticks.
- We use “Bori†in shukto. Bori is nothing but dumplings made of urad dal paste which is sun dried and used in curry after frying.
- Now heat oil in a pan and fry each vegetable separately with salt.
- After that, put all the fried vegetables together and add ginger paste, cumin powder,sugar and green chilli.
- Stir well, then add water and cover the pan with a lid until all the vegetables are well cooked.
- Now take oil in another pan and season with radhuni seeds or panch phoron & dry red chilli. Add mustard paste and saute it.
- Now pour the boiled vegetable soup & fried dumplings into it and let it boil for 2 minutes.
- Finally add milk and slower the flame.
- Switch off the gas and add ghee & panch phoron powder. Serve this curry with plain rice.
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