Hagalakayi fry recipe | How to make bitter gourd fry | No-jaggery bitter gourd fry
By Latha on Nov 20th, 2019
Hagalakayi or bitter gourd fry recipe explained with step by step pictures and video. Hagalakayi masale palya or Bitter gourd fry is a very tasty recipe and goes very well with either plain rice or curd rice. Hagalakayi fry is prepared using sliced bitter gourd, salt, gram flour and spice powders. This is a no-jaggery bitter gourd recipe.
This is a very tasty recipe using bitter gourd. I have posted few more tasty recipes using bitter gourd on this website. Some of them are bitter gourd sweet curry or hagalakayi sihi gojju, bitter gourd stir fry or hagalakai palya, bitter gourd or hagalakai pakoda and bitter gourd or hagalakayi chutney recipes.
Bitter gourd is a wonderful vegetable having many health benefits. Bittergourd is very good for diabetic patients. It helps to maintain the sugar level. However most of the Bittergourd recipes use Jaggery, taking out the goodness of Bittergourd for the diabetic patients. But this is a no-jaggery recipe. You can find bitter gourd or hagalakayi chutney on this website, which is also a no-jaggery recipe.
You can find many palya or stir fry recipes on this website like kosu or cabbage palya, thondekai palya, southekai palya, sorekai palya, bendekayi or ladies finger palya, bittergourd sweet curry, thondekai palya, Mixed vegetable palya, beans palya, badanekayi palya, Hagalakayi palya, Boodu kumbalakai or ash gourd palya and north karnataka special zunka vadi recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 tender bitter gourds
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- A big pinch hing or asafoetida
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 - 1 tsp amchur powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tsp crushed fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp gram flour or kadle hittu
- Salt as per your taste
- 3 - 5 tbsp cooking oil
Instructions for making hagalakayi fry recipe:
- To begin with rinse and slice the bitter gourd thinly. After slicing deseed them. Optionally you can soak them in salt water to remove the excess bitterness.
- Take a thick bottomed frying pan and heat 2 tbsp of oil. Add in bitter gourd slices.
- Start fying them under low flame until the slices are cooked and turns brown here and there. Add in oil if required.
- After frying add in salt, asafoetida, turmeric powder and red chilli powder.
- Followed by add in coriander powder, cumin powder, amchur powder and garam masala.
- Give a quick mix. Add in oil if required. After frying for a minute add in crushed fennel seeds.
- Give a quick mix. At the end add in a tbsp of gram flour (besan or kadle hittu)
- Continue frying for 2 more minutes. Add in oil if you find it very dry. Switch off the stove and serve it with plain rice or curd rice.
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