Kunduru ki sabzi is my favourite as a side dish with daal-chawal, though it is equally good with chapati and plain paratha too. Kunduru is known by many different names, like, ivy gourd, coccinia grandis, tendli, scarlet gourd, tindora etc. I really like this vegetable when kunduru is completely raw and green from inside. When kunduru ripens, they turn red from inside and look fruit rather than vegetable! Though we can still cook ripened kunduru as a vegetable, but that recipe some other time.
Kunduru ki sabzi can be cooked with or without onions. Onions enhance the taste, look and make it more appealing. But that doesn’t mean that kunduru doesn’t taste good without onion – my mother is a non-onion-non-garlic person and she cooks finger-licking good food!!
There are a few more posts on different vegetables in the blog – if you are interested, can take a look…
Ingredients:
Kunduru 1/2 kg
Onions 2 big sized
Green chillies chopped 3-4
Oil 5 – 6 tbsp
Water 2-3 tbsp (if required)
Coriander powder 1 tbsp
Red chilli powder 1 tsp (increase or decrease)
Turmeric powder 1 tsp
Salt as per your taste
Process:
Wash and chop kunduru lengthwise in thin stripes and keep them aside.
Chop onions and shallow fry them in one tbsp oil till they are slightly more than translucent.
Transfer these onions to a bowl. Add remaining oil and crackle cumin seeds (jeera) and asafotida (hing) in the same wok. Add chopped kunduru, spices and cut green chilies. Mix everything well and cover the wok. Keep the heat on sim.
Stir them twice or thrice. Add 2 or 3 tbsp of water if spices are sticking to the bottom of the wok. Cover again and let them cook till they are soft. Add fried onions, mix them with kunduru and let them cook on sim heat for 2-3 minutes more.
Kunduru ki sabzi is ready! Serve it hot as a side dish with daal-chawal or plain parathe/roti.
Deliciously explained
Thanks a lot annie☺️🙂
Very good!😍😍😍
Thanks a lot ☺️🙂
looks lovely and no doubt tastes very good Definitely onions! Thank you!
Joanna
Joanna, thank you very much 😊 onion does enhance the taste here.
Wah! This is one of my favourite Deeksha. Specially love it with roti!!
Same pinch Radhika 🤚I am the only one in the family who loves kunduru ☺️
Kunduru is liked only by few
True !
Oh! Delicious. 🥰
Thank you very much Meenal 😊
I just looked Kunduru up on the Internet. Another vegetable that I never heard about. As far as fruit and vegetables are concerned, I really envy you!!! 🙂
Nothing like that Stella. I also want to use fennel stem but we don’t get it here. Have seen a lot in food shows using it in so many different ways.
Yes, you are right (again) … <3
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Many many thanks Samreen☺
You are very welcome 😊🤗
This sabji is very tasty with rice or roti and love it ! Nice share Deeksha
Thank you very much dear Nisha 😊
Looks so healthy and delicious😊
Thank you very much Olivia☺️
Pictures look yummy. You may also cut them crosswise into thin slices, isn’t it? Like them best with rice:)
Yes, with rice as a side dish dry sabzi kunduru is nice. Thank you very much Padmini😊
We can slice them whichever the way our family approves, isn’t it!!
I would love to have with rotis 😋
Thank you very much Syamala☺️😊
So tasty
Thanks a lot Tina
This looks inviting . I love the tender ones which is a very rare find.
Thank you very much Deepika ☺️
Ivy gourd fry is my children’s favorite 💓
That’s wonderful Sunip! I guess your kids eat vegetables a lot and the whole credit goes to you!!
They like some types of vegetables but not all Dee 💙❤💜
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Awesome presentation and I too love eating tendli and never knew it had so many names, Deeksha. Lovely will make this preparation of tendli just like you have made. Too good.
Thank you very much dear Kamal for your lovely appreciation 🙂 😊
You are always welcome dear Deeksha 😊❤️❤️😊😊
That sounds delicious. 🙂
Thank you very much Lynette 😊
Very nice👌
Thank you Garima.
I did not eat earlier, but I will definitely eat it, it looks very tasty. Very good post ma’am👌👌🌻🎆😊🤗🌷
Thanks a lot Yogesh. Try this vegetable, probably one more vegetable would be added in your menu🙂
And eat it with steam hot white rice! It will be super delicious! ^O^
Wow 👍…looks lovely and very tasty🤗😉🤟
Thank you very much Chef☺😊
This is so nice. Kunduru is a humble vegetable which doesn’t get its due in glossy cook books and TV shows. Kudos to you for elaborately presenting the cooking steps for this honest to goodness vegetable.
Anil, thank you very much for going through the post 😊
Kunduru might not be favorite for cookbooks, but if we see it being sold in almost every vegetable shop, we know that this humble vegetable has its place in lots of kitchens.
Looks great..delicious.. Amazing!! I hope you can send me by post..!