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Wash oil & peel the gourd. Add some salt to the peel. Keep aside for a while and span water. Mix to all the flour and abovo mentioned ingredients and little oil. Bind to a stiff dough and divide into small long balls. Fry them in hot oil.
Slice the peeled gourd and fry in oil. Heat some oil in a saucepan and throw in the fried slices and fried balls mix. Keep for some time. Take off fire and add cocoanut and coriander leaves and serve.
Note. One can also make a tasty vegetable of Bitter gourd peel alone. Heat some oil and throw in the peel and all the masala. Make a batter of gram flour and mix in the cooking peel. When done take off fire and serve.
--PRERANA
Savoury Cake (Dhana Ata) Dhanna Atta 6 cups, Sour curd 6 cups, Salt red chilly powder, Green chilly paste oil 3 Tablo-spoon, 1 kg. fresh green peas, green chilly paste, Lemon juice, sugar according to taste, Coriander leaves and grated coconut.
For decoration 1 carrot and 6 boiled potatoes and boiled peas 1 cup.
Make a dough adding sour curd to dhana atta (droping consistancy) Add 3 table-spoon oil. Add Red chilly powder and green chilly paste. Keep aside for 2 hours.
Grind peas finely toss peas in a 1 table spoon hot oil. Cook on a slow fire for 10 minutes. Add green chilly paste salt and sugar. Let it cool for few minutes. Add lemon juice chopped corriander leaves and grated coconut. Make 3 pankies of Dhana atta using banana leaves for a roasting. In a round dish make 3 layers of Pankies, spreading green peas mixture on each layers. Top the whole cake with mashed Potatoes. With the star nozzel decorate the cake with mashed potatoes. Arrange green peas on the sides make a flower out of carrot and decorate on the
top.
--ARUNIKA SHAH
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com