12 June, 2025
Ivy gourd spicy rice |Tondekayi bath |
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This tiny green vegetable known by the name Ivy gourd or tindora or Kundru in Hindi or tondekayi in kannada, offers several health benefits because of its rich nutrient content and today I’m going to share a one pot meal made using this wonderful vegetable called tondekayi bath
This low in calorie but high in fiber and nutrients vegetable is used in treating various health issues like diabetes, cough, constipation, infections, Jaundice, fever, hypertension, Pain management etc
We all at home like this vegetable and very often I make mixed vegetable stir fry by adding ivy gourd along with few more vegetables, tondekayi ennegayi curry in the same way how I make brinjal ennegayi curry in two methods
I also make a kind of raita using Ivy gourd or tondekayi, the recipe of which I’m yet to share here on my blog, will do so asap and that recipe also turns out yum and much suitable for summer season
Ingredients : measuring cup used – 250 ml
- Rice – 1 cup
- Boiled water – 2&1/2 cups
- Ivy gourd/tondekayi – 2 cups, cut lengthwise
- Salt to taste
- Tamarind juice – 1 tbsp
- Jaggery – 1/2 tbsp
Others :
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Green chili – 1 big
- Hing – 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Red chili powder – 1 tsp
- Cashew nuts – 1/4 cup
- Curry leaves – a fist full
To roast & powder :
- Peanuts – 1/4 cup
- Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
- Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
- Green cardamom – 2 nos.,
- Cloves – 3 nos.,
- Black pepper corns – 1/4 tsp
- Grated dry coconut – 1/2 cup
- Whole red chilies, byadigi – 4 nos.,
- Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
PROCEDURE :
- To begin with, gather all the ingredients listed below the heading ‘To roast & Powder’ in a pan, dry roast until done and powder it
- Heat Ghee in a pressure cooker, put all the ingredients listed below the heading ‘others’ and let them splutter
- Now put ivy gourd and stir for couple of minutes, then put the prepared spice powder and mix everything well
- Put well rinsed rice, boiled water and salt, tamarind juice, jaggery, stir everything well, close the lid and cook until done
- Serve as such or along with any kind of raita. Today I paired this Ivy gourd spicy rice along with Sweet potato yogurt raita
- Below you can have a look at the Ivy gourd spicy rice or tondekayi bath and banana holige
By the way you can have a look at some more raita recipes, like –
- Radish or moolangi raita
- Red pumpkin raita
- Tomato raita
- Brinjal raita
- Cucumber raita
- Pineapple raita
- Beetroot Pomegranate raita
- Black gram raita or uddina hittu
- Okra bendekayi raita
- Fresh green peas raita
- Ginger raita
- Bele raita or Lentil raita
- Potato raita
- Apple raita
- mixed fresh fruits raita
And here you can have a look at many other rice dishes recipes, like –
- Parippu sadam or Lentil rice
- Sesame seeds rice or Yellanna
- Tuppada anna or Tuppdanna
- Tomato fresh chickpeas rice
- Spicy amla rice
- Raw mango methi capsicum rice
- Broccoli corn beetroot masala rice
- Cabbage rice
- Kesaribath or sweetened rice
- Fried rice
- Pineapple fried rice
- Potato/alugadde anna
- Bread Pomegranate spicy rice
- Crushed sweet corn lemon rice
- Sweet corn rice (with and without Spinach)
- Temple style chitranna
- Raw mango rice
