Kaddu (Vegetable Marrow)

Ingredients

• four ounces of butter or ghee
• a large onion cut into dice
• a tablespoonful of Garam Masalla
• a teaspoonful of green ginger
• a teaspoonful of coriander
• a point of crushed garlic
• a pint of water
• pieces of vegetable marrow cleaned, cut into inch and a half squares

Method

1. 1

   Steam butter or ghee, add onion and spices, stir without browning.

2. 2

   Add water, bring to boil, add vegetable marrow, stir, and cook on slow fire for half an hour.

3. 3

   Add lemon juice and curds, stir gently, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 141. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kaddu. (Vegetable Marrow.) Steam four ounces of butter or ghee, then put a large onion cut into dice into a stewpan, and one tablespoonful of Garam Masalla, a teaspoonful of green ginger, a 346 Phulka. PUNJAB (Brahmin) teaspoonful of coriander, and a point of crushed garlic ; keep them stirred over a moderate fire, but do not brown them. Then add a pint of water, let it just boil up ; put in the pieces of vegetable marrow cleaned, cut into inch and a half squares

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