Stuffed Baby Bittergourd

This vegetable was made on an impulse, I went to the market and my eyes fell on these super fresh baby gourds and I was instantly tempted to pick them up, so  here comes the dish made out of them. Showing you the picture of the stuffed ones before they are ready because I have neither scraped them, nor have I boiled them in salt water and drained them. Without doing any of this the vegetable tastes super yummy.

Ingredients

300 gms of baby bittergourd, sides removed with a slit in the middle, deseeded
1/2 freshly scraped coconut
5 onions 
2 tomatoes
2 tspoons of ginger garlic paste
A small bunch of coriander
2 tspoons of malwani masala
1 tspoon of garam masala
1 tspoon amchur powder
2 tspoons of chilli powder
Salt to taste

Method
For grinding take 2 roughly chopped onions, the scraped coconut, 1 tspoon of chilli powder, 1/2 tspoon amchur, salt to taste. 1 spoon of ginger garlic paste 1 tomato roughly chopped, garam masala and keep the paste ready, 

In a kadhai take oil, add 3 finely chopped onions, 1 tspoon ginger garlic paste, sautee till golden brown, add the finely chopped tomato, little chopped coriander, 1/2 tspoon amchur, 1 tspoon of chilli powder, malwani masala, salt to taste and let it cook well till it comes together and leaves the sides of the kadhai. Once it cools stuff this in the gourds as shown in the picture. 

Now take some oil and add the stuffed gourds into this, sprinkle little salt and water, cook them covered, till almost done. In the meanwhile in another kadhai add a bit of oil and add the ground paste and keep it to cook till it leaves oil, now add the remaining masala if any, after stuffing the bitter gourds, add the stuffed gourds and let this cook for a while, add water as per requirement, see that the gourds are well cooked, take care to stir carefully so the gourds do not break open. This tastes best with phulkas or parathas.