Priya Wickramasinghe, Carol Selva Rajah

Snake Gourd with Yoghurt

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers
The Food of India

By Priya Wickramasinghe and Carol Selva Rajah

Published 2005

  • About

This is a versatile recipe that can be made using snake gourd, bitter melon or eggplant (aubergine). Snake gourds are long and thin, sometimes curly, vegetables that grow on vines. Growers sometimes tie a weight to the vegetable to straighten it as it grows.

Ingredients

  • 250 g (9 oz) snake gourd
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric

Method

Peel the snake gourd, slice in half horizontally and then slice diagonally into pieces about 1 cm (½ inch) thick. Add the turmeric and a pinch of salt and rub into the pieces of gourd. Put the gourd in a s