Potoler Dorma(Stuffed Pointed Gourd)

Ingredients:

250 gm Pointed Gourd (Padwal or Potol)

1 small Potato

1 big piece of Fish

Salt to taste

½ tsp Sugar

2 tsp Turmeric Powder

1 tsp Red Chilli Powder

1 BayLeaf (Tej Pata)

1 tsp Garam Masala

1 tsp Ginger Paste

1 tbsp Poppy seeds(Posto)

1 tbsp White Mustard Seeds

1-2 Green Chillies

1 Onion

4 tbsp Oil

1 tbsp Cream

Procedure:

Keep the poppy seeds and white mustard seeds soaked in water overnight so they become soft and easy to grate and grate them along with the coconut, and chopped green chilli to a fine paste.

Fry the fish in the oil for around 5 minutes, till both sides become golden brown. Slice the gourds on one side and take out the interior portion and keep them aside. Chop the potatoes to very small pieces. Make the fish boneless, and fry with the potato and goud interior. Add to it salt, sugar, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder and ginger paste. Fry everything well till well done and take it off the flame.

Now stuff the gouds with this mixture - use a thread to tie it up.

Fry these stuffed gourd lightly and take them out.

Now chop the onion and fry in the oil till golden brown, and add the poppy seeds and mustard mixture prepared earlier. Add 1 teaspoon turmeric powder, salt, sugar, bayleaf and the garam masala. Add the cream and let it boil once. Add the stuffed gourds into it now, and let it cook for 3 more minutes, so that the gravy can go inside the gourds.

(Take out the threads before serving. For vegetarian version, replace the fish, with any vegetable of your choice such as cabbage.)