Chinese Long Bottle Gourd
Lauki is also great for the stomach and light on digestion.
Chinese long bottle gourd. In 75 days you will be having lots of bottle gourds growing on the vine. Beyond moroccan cuisine you might come across the bottle gourd in dishes from other countries where it s a popular vegetable. 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.
Oriental pickling melon. Lauki juice has long been hailed by health experts for its medicinal properties. Hairy gourd fuzzy gourd mao gua tomato. Bottle and calabash gourds are excellent in meat soups or stir fries.
Pair bottle gourds with other vegetables like eggplant onion tomatoes and peppers. Old chinese fables sometimes describe a person accidentally coming upon a small narrow opening in the mountains and entering into a mystical or fairy world where people enjoy peace and long and happy lives. Incidents of serious illness and deaths have been reported in india after consumption of bitter bottle gourd juice for its purported health benefits. Young luffas can be prepared just like zucchini.
All the gourds such as bottle snake ridge bitter ash pumpkin etc can be grown in similar manner. For instance thin slices can be added to a chinese stir fry and small chunks would be good in an indian curry or chutney. Experts suggest consuming bottle gourd juice as it acts as a hydrating agent reducing excessive body heat it has close to 90 water content. 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.
Squas h and pumpkin. Bottle gourd poisoning is a condition that occurs when a raw bitter toxic bottle gourd consumed either directly or in the form of juice. Luffa edible sponge gourd cee gwa new. Add the shredded bottle gourd followed by 1 2 cups of water.
Also known as cucuzza calabash opo squash bottle squash long opo long upo po gua pul qua and long melon chinese melon yugao and in india as lauki. The bottle gourd plant grows quite quickly very vigorously and spread to long distances. Bring to boil and reduce the heat let it simmer until the bottle gourd has become soft. 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.