Name: Doodh Sukhto recipe by Runa Ganguly at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: ½ cup each of potato, sweet potato, papaya, carrot, beans, string beans, green banana chopped to 1 inch size pieces; Drumsticks cut to 2 inch length; 8-10 bodis/daal vadi; ½ cup of bitter gourd, cut to small round-shaped bite size pieces; 1 teaspoon ghee; 1 large bay leaf; 2 tablespoon panch phoron seeds; 1/2 cup plain milk; 4 Tablespoon Mustard Oil; Water as needed

ABOUT Doodh Sukhto RECIPE

Sukhto is a medley of vegetables cooked with bitter gourd. It’s normally consumed before the main dishes/curries with steamed rice and ghee. Adding milk to this gravy gives it a rich and bitter-sweet flavour

Ingredients Serving: 4

½ cup each of potato, sweet potato, papaya, carrot, beans, string beans, green banana chopped to 1 inch size pieces
Drumsticks cut to 2 inch length
8-10 bodis/daal vadi
½ cup of bitter gourd, cut to small round-shaped bite size pieces
1 teaspoon ghee
1 large bay leaf
2 tablespoon panch phoron seeds
1/2 cup plain milk
4 Tablespoon Mustard Oil
Water as needed

Instructions

Heat 2 tablespoon of mustard oil and fry the bodi and bitter gourd separately, keep aside
Pour in rest of the oil and throw in half the paanch phoron seeds
as they start sputtering add all the vegetables except the fried bitter gourd
sprinkle little water and cook covered till all the vegetables soften
Heat a thick bottom skillet and roast rest of the paanch phoron seeds for a few seconds
grind them to fine powder and mix with the milk
As the vegetables get cooked pour in the spice mixed milk, fried bodi, bitter gourd and the ghee
Mix everything well and take off heat
serve Doodh Sukhto warm/at room temperature accompanied with steamed rice

Similar Recipes