Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, shukto. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Shukto is a popular Bengali dish made during festivals and special occasions like kitty party, potluck, buffet and on a family get-together. This traditional Shukto recipe is loved by the people of all age groups. Shukto (Bengali: শুক্তো) is a popular vegetable dish in Bengali cuisine usually served with rice in the West Bengal state of India and in the neighbouring country Bangladesh.

Shukto is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Shukto is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook shukto using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Shukto:

1. Get 2 small uchche/ Bitter Gourd
2. Take 2 small Baigun /Brinjal
3. Get 1 kancha kola/Raw Banana
4. Make ready 2 small aloo/ potato
5. Get 1 ranga aloo / Sweet potato
6. Make ready 2 Danta / Drum sticks
7. Prepare 1 Mooli/ White Radish
8. Get 7 sheem / Broad Beans
9. Prepare 10 pieces Bori
10. Prepare 2 tbsp poppy seeds/posto
11. Take 1 tbsp mustard seed / sorso
12. Get 1 tbsp ginger paste
13. Get 1 tsp panch phoron
14. Take 2 tsp Radhuni
15. Prepare 1 tsp turmeric powder
16. Get 1 tbsp sugar
17. Take to taste Salt
18. Make ready 4 tbsp Mustard oil
19. Prepare 1 tbsp ghee
20. Get 1 cup Milk
21. Get 3 cups water
22. Make ready 2 nos red chilli
23. Prepare 2 nos green chilli

Shukto is a mix of vegetables with an emphasis to the bitterness, is a preparation where instead of hiding the bitterness, it is the taste that actually the dish evolves. Dudh Shukto is a popular dish made with the addition of milk to alleviate the bitter taste and to help make it more palatable. Pritha explains, "Shukto is not really the name of a single dish. It is essentially a style and method of cooking a starter which is a jewel in the crown of Bengali cuisine.

Steps to make Shukto:

1. Soak both mustard seeds and puppy seeds in water for ten minutes then make paste. All vegetables cut in rectangular strips, drumsticks into 2" long strips after peeling the outer skin of each veggies except Brinjal, heat mustard oil in a wok and fry Bitter Gourd and keep aside,
2. Then fry Bori in medium flame keep aside.
3. Then fry all the veggie one by one keep it side, temper remaining oil with panch phoron, and Radhuni, red green chilli, add ginger paste and cook for 2 minutes, then add puppy seed and mustard seed paste and cook again for 2 minutes.
4. Add turmeric powder, salt to taste, sugar again cook for 2 minutes, add all the fried vegetables and bori.
5. Now add milk, water to the veggie, mix it and bring it to boil then cover the wok with a lid, cook for 10 minutes in low flame,
6. Check the water level and if required add some more water since Shukto should have sufficient gravy. Add ghee to the curry and boil for 2 minutes and serve hot with rice.

Shukto which people from opar bangla or Bangladesh call shuktoni is actually the result of Portuguese influence from colonization in the pre British era when the use of milk in a savory vegetable dish was tried. The fried lentil dumplings or bori is another delightful part of Shukto which adds a nice bite to the dish. I remember as a child I used to Shukto. Shukto is a traditional bangali recipe. Shukto is made of many vegetables.

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