Zucchini, also called courgette,is a variety of squash in the gourd family. Zucchini is very rich in several minerals,vitamins and have several antioxidants thatmay provide various health benefits especially in the fruit’s skin. This is anexotic vegetable found mainly in super market. Earlier it was not known bymaximum Indian, but now slowly these types of vegetables are capturing Indianmarket and also available with the local vendors. In India there are two variants areavailable, one is dark green and other one is yellow. So you can make amazingzucchini curry by adding potatoes, peas or Bengal gram or sometimes withbroccoli or cauliflower florets to come out from the boring gourd flavor. Ifyou are comfortable with non-veg then you can use shrimps which make a veryexotic flavor. As we Bengalis are very fond of potatoes, we try to add potatoesin every single dish, so this is also not an exceptional. Here I used boiledpotatoes with Bengal gram adding with fried zucchini and Onions which are addedwith tempered cumin seeds This is Howto make amazing zucchini curry.
Wash thoroughly the vegetables.Peelpotatoes and put it in a pressure cooker with overnight soaked Bengal gram
Add salt, cinnamon and a pinch of hing (asafoetida) and wait for two whistles.
By the time take a fry pan or a kadai and put it in theflame.
Add oil to heat then throw some panchphoron/cumin seeds fortempering
As they splutter and sizzle addgrated onion, green chili and fry it,
When it becomes light brown addginger- garlic paste and cook for two minutes.
Add salt,(please check the saltbefore adding as we have already added with potatoes and Bengal gram)turmericpowder, red chili powder and garam masala powder and and fry it till the raw smell of the spices is goes off,then add half a cup of water.
Now open the pressure cooker afterreleasing the pressure and add it with the fried onion and spices and cook foranother two to three minutes.(cut the potatoes in two to three halves)
Now add the raw zucchinis( it isadvisable not to fry the zucchini to maintain its food value)
Put the flame in simmer and allowzucchini to cook and soak the gravy.
Once it boiled properly and the oilstarts coming out to the surface of the gravy, throw some coriander leaves andswitch off the flame.