Bitter Melon with Onion & Tomato

My Sindhi-speaking sister-in-law, Anuradha, offered this curry one day when I was visiting my brother and his family in Mumbai. I lamented that I had yet to find a bitter melon recipe I liked, and she pulled this concoction, mottled with spices, onion, and tomato, from her refrigerator. “Salt it for a very long time and pan-fry it,” she advised, “and you won’t find it to be unpleasantly bitter.” Well, Anuradha was right about that, and I found it to be certainly palatable a