Cut Karela to bite size pieces. Remove seeds
Do not peel or put salt and squeeze out its juice. This recipe will be tasty with the ingredients and we will reduce bitterness in last step
Deep Fry Karela in oil and keep it aside.
Other options are bake in oven for 30 minutes or till it turns brown. You can air fry also. If you want less oil
Dry roast urad and chana dal in medium flame till turns red. Add scraped coconut and roast till coconut is roasted
Roast below separately and keep separate as each will have different texture. If we put and roast and grind together we will not have a good nutty powder
Dry roast sesame seeds. Little oil roast red chilli
In a mixer put roasted chana urad coconut along with red chilli and groundnut
Dry grind to coarse powder. Finally add sesame seeds and run the mixer for just 10 second. Running more time will make the powder.oily from sesame oil from sesame seeds
Take out the powder add turmeric chaat and garam masala powders. Add needed salt to the powder
Mix this powder to roasted Karela to coat it fully. It will stick as Karela has oil in it.
Alternative you can prepare this powder before and fry karela and add this powder to it when its hot.
Add lemon juice and give it a stir. This will reduce the bitterness and it will make it even tasty.
Serve with curd rice.
