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Pakistani Style Keema Kareley – Healthy Dinner

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Kareleys (bitter Melon) are so healthy and yummy. They cook amazing with ground beef. You can also try my recipe off Curried Keema.

Ramsha Baig

Bitter Melon Health Benefits

Bitter melon, or karela, has been used for hundreds of years in traditional chinese medication in addition to Ayurvedic medication. This ancient awareness is now being sponsored up by science, with several research showing its tremendous effects on blood sugar due to a chemical that acts much like insulin. not handiest that, it’s been proven to useful resource digestion, combat infection and promote cleansing and detoxing.

Chinese Vs South Asian Bitter Melon

The first step of this recipe is to salt the bitter melon to help dispose of a number of the sour flavors.

The chinese style of bitter melon is mellower in terms of its pungency, and that’s what I used on this recipe. After tasting a bite of this dish, my husband commented how it’s no longer as sour as he predicted. whilst penning this, I realized that it’s likely because I used the chinese sour melon and no longer the Indian one, which he is aware of because he grew up inside the motherland! So, if the use of chinese sour melon, shorten or pass the salting part if you are like my husband and have a keenness for that sharp taste.

some other manner to take away any bitterness is to reduce and freeze the bitter melons in advance. No want to salt them!

in case you’re the use of the Indian sour melon, you can peel some of the tough skin of the bitter melon before salting it.

The aggregate of bitter melon and ground red meat is very popular in Pakistan – and for excellent reason! Pair it with rotis for a slightly sour, however very pleasurable comfort meal.

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Pakistani Style Keema Kareley - Healthy Dinner

Pakistani Style Keema Kareley - Healthy Dinner

ramsha
The aggregate of bitter melon and ground red meat is very popular in Pakistan – and for excellent reason! Pair it with rotis for a slightly sour, however very pleasurable comfort meal.
prep time
20 mins
cooking time
30 mins
servings
4
total time
50 mins

Equipment

  • Instant Pot

Ingredients

  • 1 medium onion, chopped

  • 3 tbsp olive oil

  • 1 lb ground beef, washed and rinsed

  • 2-3 small tomatoes, chopped

  • 1 inch piece ginger, crushed

  • 4-5 garlic cloves, crushed

  • 1-2 green chili peppers, chopped

  • 1/2 tsp red chilli powder

  • 1/2 tsp turmeric powder

  • 1 tsp salt

  • 1 tsp coriander powder

  • 1 tsp cumin powder

  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds

  • 1 tbsp plain whole milk yogurt

  • 2 medium sized (~1 lb) Chinese or any bitter melons

  • 2 tsp salt for prepping the bitter melon

  • vegetable oil for frying

  • juice of a quarter of a lemon, optional

  • coriander leaves, chopped (for garnish)

Instructions

1
First, sprinkle more than one teaspoons of salt into a bowl with the sour melon, blend and set apart. This enables take out some of the bitter flavors.
2
Now you’re prepared to cook dinner! heat oil in a huge saute pan over medium-high heat. add onions and saute till lightly brown. If the contents are sticking to the lowest of your pan, add a bit of water to caramelize them.
3
Add the floor beef and cook dinner till it's miles browned, the usage of your spatula to break up the red meat into small pieces to ensure no lumps.
4
Add garlic, ginger, tomatoes, and inexperienced chili peppers and continue cooking for a few minutes. upload the spices and salt in addition to the yogurt. decrease the heat, cover, and allow this aggregate cook dinner.
5
In the meantime, wash the salt off of the sour melon by using rinsing via a strainer. Squeeze or blot the bitter melon with a tissue to put off extra water. warmness a few vegetable oil and fry the bitter melon for about five minutes, or until it is cooked and crisp around the edges.
6
add the fried sour melon to the beef combination, being cautious no longer to feature any excess oil. decrease the heat to the bottom placing, cover and allow this aggregate simmer for approximately 5 minutes.
7
Add the sprinkle chopped coriander and squeeze the lemon (if the use of) over the dish.
8
Serve with roti, rice, bread or whatever your coronary heart dreams!

Notes

If using the Indian variety, you will need to scrape the bitter melons, slit them, and then deseed them.
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