Recipe: Tasty Doi Potol

Doi Potol. Niramish Doi Potol or Dahi Parwal without Onion & garlic is cooked with pointed gourds in a subtly sweet & tangy yogurt and ginger based sauce. Doi Potol Bengali style tastes best with white rice. Doi Potol is a popular Bengali recipe and the Spicy version of this dish is a big hit in my home.

While frying, simmer on low heat and fry covering them. Doi Potol is a Bengali recipe native to Kolkata and is their favourite comfort food. The vegetarian recipe is made using parwal which are called as potol in Bengali. You can cook Doi Potol using 13 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Doi Potol

1. You need 250 gms of parwal (pointed gourd).
2. Prepare 2 of big onions (finely chopped).
3. It's 1 tbsp of gin-gar paste.
4. You need 1 of tomato (finely chopped).
5. It's 2 tbsp of coriander powder.
6. It's 1 tsp of haldi.
7. You need 1 tbsp of sabzi masala.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
9. It's to taste of Salt.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of garam masala.
11. Prepare of Oil to deep fry.
12. It's 3 tbsp of curd.
13. You need 1 tsp of zeera.

The recipe is made out in the form of curry. The recipe of doi potol has quite a few variations but I like to prepare it in this way. The yogurt in the recipe gives a tangy taste to the curry and makes it silky and smooth. India is a land of diversities, which is well portrayed in its culture and cuisine.

Doi Potol instructions

1. Rinse and cut parwal in a way that it is joined together. See pic..
2. Deep fry them and keep aside..
3. In a kadhai put oil and let zeera splutter..
4. Then add onions and fry till golden..
5. Add gin-gar paste and sautè till raw aroma goes off..
6. Add tomatoes to it and stir for a min..
7. Then add all dry spices along with salt, and fry till it starts leaving oil..
8. Then add water and bring it to boil..
9. Lower the flame and add curd while stirring it continuosly..
10. Then add parwal to it and cook futher till u get ur desired consistency..
11. At last add garam masala and stir..
12. Garnish with coriander leaves..
13. It's done!! 🤗.

Hence, it has a wide spectrum of food. Doi Potol/ Dahi Parwal- Pointed Gourd shallow fried and simmered in a tangy yogurt sauce. Doi Potol-Parwal is a very healthy seasonal vegetable mainly available during summer season in north. Bengalis love potol or pointed gourd. They have a variety of dishes with this vegetable.