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Lau chingri (prawns with bottle gourd)
Fruit and vegetables
1 doodhi (bottle
gourd
), about 500g/1lb 2 oz–600g/1lb 5oz, peeled, pith and seeds discarded, flesh diced into 1cm/½in cubes
2 dried whole red
chilli
, broken, seeds and stalk removed
1 tbsp
ginger
paste
½ tbsp
garlic
paste
squeeze
lemon juice
Cooking ingredients
1 tsp ground
turmeric
1½ tsp
salt
1 tsp
cumin
seeds
1½ tsp ground
cumin
1 tsp red
chilli powder
1 tsp
sugar
½ ts ground
garam masala
Meat, fish and poultry
400g/14oz
prawn
tails (head and shell removed), cut into 2–3 pieces
Other
4 tbsp
mustard oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tsp ajwain seeds (carom seeds)
70g/2½ oz green
peas
or petit pois (frozen is fine)
puris
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