Chinese Bottle Gourd
Beyond moroccan cuisine you might come across the bottle gourd in dishes from other countries where it s a popular vegetable.
Chinese bottle gourd. When dried and hollowed they make excellent containers. For instance thin slices can be added to a chinese stir fry and small chunks would be good in an indian curry or chutney. Bottle and calabash gourds are excellent in meat soups or stir fries. Add the shredded bottle gourd followed by 1 2 cups of water.
Pair bottle gourds with other vegetables like eggplant onion tomatoes and peppers. Bring to boil and reduce the heat let it simmer until the bottle gourd has become soft. In a wok heat up 2 tablespoons of cooking oil sauté the minced garlic and soaked dried shrimps until aromatic. And while used in a variety of chinese dishes the winter melon is the key ingredient for the famous winter melon soup popular at chinese banquets.
Bottle gourds can be cut and made into 2 different art pieces. Gourd art by gloria crane as seen on dvd carved gourd pot with hand leather look and textured patina. Bottle gourd recipes did you know that bottle gourd popularly known as lauki across most indian households is believed to be one of the first plants to be cultivated in the world interestingly one of the primary uses of the vegetable was to make containers to store water. China folk fengshui copper brass welath fu zi statue gourd bottle cucurbit vase.
Vintage brass crafted feng shui bottle gourd ying yang pattern statue. Here are our 11 best bottle gourd recipes. Young luffas can be prepared just like zucchini. Add the minced meat stir fry until the meat is set.
It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil when it is fresh the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh. Ancient chinese maps show the source of the yellow river as bottle gourd shaped. The bottom creates a pot and the top of the gourd is turned over and made into a small vase as shown in the art pieces here by gloria crane. In fengshui 风水 the origins of the major dragon veins the pathways through which energy flows over mountains are also depicted as gourd shaped.
Calabash lagenaria siceraria also known as bottle gourd white flowered gourd long melon new guinea bean and tasmania bean is a vine grown for its fruit. Folk chinese copper brass longevity eight immortal god statue gourd bottle vase.