Sukto (Bengali Dish)

Recipe by

Jharna

Total Time:
1.5 days

Serves: 6

Nutrition facts:

240 calories, 9 grams fat

Category: Vegetarian Recipe

Course: Side-Dish Recipe

Cuisine: Indian Recipe

Technique: Stewed Recipe

Difficulty: Medium

Sukto is a Bengali dish native to the land of Kolkata famous for other delicious recipes. Sukto is a vegetarian Indian recipe and is famous comfort food of Kolkata.

The recipe is a mix of many vegetables and altogether they impart a unique flavour to this whole dish when cooed with urad dal. This recipe is famously relished as a side dish and made as a stewed recipe.

You can learn how to make it at home and bring the flavours of Bengal right into your kitchen. Some veggies like brinjal, karela, potato, raw papaya, raw banana, cucumber, drumstick and urad dal are stewed all together with some spices and condiments. It comes out as a sabzi which is best eaten with roti.

Take a look at more Side-Dish Recipes. You may also want to try Chich Barak Kebbe, Lemon Leaf Mint Thogayal , Taiwanese Hamburgers, Chettinad Kathrikai Avial

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Ingredients

Karela - 1.5 cups
Brinjal -1/2 cup
Potato - 1/2 cup
Pumpkin - 1/2 cup
Raw papaya - 1/2 cup
Raw banana - 1/2 cup
Cucumber - 1/2 cup
Drumstick - 1/2 cup
Urad dal - 1 cup
Mustard - 2 tsp
Ginger-jeera paste - 2 tsp
Tejpatta - 2
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
Water - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 tsp.

How to Make Sukto (Bengali Dish)

To make bari, soak the urad dal for 6 hours and make a paste, adding salt.
Now grease a steel plate with oil and put spoonful of the paste on it and dry in the sun until crisp.
Heat a pan, add oil and splutter mustard and tejpatta. Saute.
Add ginger-jeera paste and fry for a while.
Add all the vegetables, salt and turmeric powder and fry with the masala.
Add water and boil.
Now add the baris and cook, covered, for 10 minutes on low flame.
Now add sugar and mix with the sabzi and serve hot.

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