| • | Scrap the karelas a little.
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| • | Peel the ginger, onions and garlic.
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| • | Make a cut on karela on one side from start to end.
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| • | Boil karelas, onion, ginger, garlic with a pinch of salt and water in a pressure cooker.
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| • | Cook it till one whistle.
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| • | If boiling in a pan, then take more water and cook till the karelas are tender enough and drain the excess water from it.
For Stuffing:
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| • | Grind the boiled ginger, onion, and garlic.
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| • | Take a pan and heat 3 tbsp oil in it and place mustard seed to splutter.
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| • | Now combine the ground paste, chili powder, mustard powder, tamarind paste, salt and half of the turmeric powder, coriander powder, and cumin powder with it.
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| • | Cook it for some minutes until the paste starts to leave oil in the pan.
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| • | Combine besan, rest of the turmeric powder and a pinch of salt in a bowl to make a thick paste.
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| • | Now open the slits of karela and fill the stuffing.
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| • | Take a pan and heat oil in it.
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| • | Dip the stuffed karela one by one in the besan paste and fry it in the hot oil till golden brown.
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| • | Drain the excess oil in the paper towel and serve. |
