Kakarakaya Sogi (Bittergourd curry): Grandma's Recipe

Ingredients:
Kakarakayas (Bittergourds)
Uppu (Salt)
Karam (Red chilli powder)
Jeelakarra (Jeera) - 1 spoon
Dhanyalu - 1 spoon
Vellipayalu (Garlic)
Cut onions
Bellam (Jaggery)
Chintapandu (Tamarind)

Cooking Procedure:

1. Grate off the hard portion of the kakarakaya's skin and cut them horizontally into pieces of 3 cm each
2. Sprinkle some reasonable amount of salt on all the cut pieces and leave it on for 30 min (This is to reduce the bitterness of the kakarakaya)
   
3. After leaving it on for 30 min, rinse 3 to 4 times with water and make vertical slits in all of them
   
4. Take a small piece of tamarind and soak it in water for few min
   
5. Grind the following items to prepare sogi: Saoked tamarind, Red chilli powder, salt, jeera, garlic, dhanyalu, cut onions and jaggery
6. Now fry the bitter gourds in a frying pan
7. Take out the fried bitter gourds and fill them with sogi
8. Fry some onions, put the excessive sogi in that oninon fry and mixed with the sogi filled bitter gourds

Hope fully, a tasty kakarakaya sogi is ready

Mirapakaya Sogi : Grandma's Recipe

Ingredients:
Fat chilli's
Dried shredded coconut
cut onions
salt
Pappula podi

Cooking Procedure:

1. Grind dried shredded coconut, cut onions and salt
2. Mix the grinded mixture with pappula podi to make sogi
   
3. Make a vertical cut in the fat chilli's and fill it with sogi
4. Fry the sogi filled chilli's in a frying pan
5. After 2 to 4 mins, the chilli's should be fried, remove the chillis and drain some oil
6. Put the leftover sogi in the oil for a minute or less and mix it with the chillis

The tasty tasty mirapakaya sogi is ready ...

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