Konkan Dudi Bafad (Bottle Gourd)

Konkon Dudi Bafad is made with coconut juice like many other Bafad Recipes like Cauliflower Bafad and Long Green Beans or Vaal Bafad.

Konkon Dudi Bafad

Ingredients:

1 small bottle gourd/konkan

Coconut juice, thick and thin, of 1/2 coconut

10 medium sized prawns 

2 onions, chopped fine

salt to taste, approx. 1 tspn.

2 tomatoes, chopped fine

2 green chillies, slit

5 flakes garlic

1 tspn cumin seeds

1 tblspn oil

 
Method:

• Cut the bottle gourd into cubes and keep it aside. 
• Fry the onion in a non-stick cooking pan.
•  Add the prawns and keep stirring.



How to make konkon dudi bafad

• Add the tomato.

Bafad recipe for bottle gourd

• Add the green chillies.
• Add the thin coconut juice and bring to a boil.
• Add the cut bottle gourd pieces.

Konkan Dudi bafad preparation

• Simmer with lid closed until cooked.
• Add the thick coconut juice, pounded garlic and cumin seeds and bring to a boil.
• Take the konkon dudi bafad off the fire and serve with chapatis or rice.

Cauliflower Bafad

Cauliflower bafad is one of my favourites when it comes to bafad. I have already shown you how to make the bottle gourd or konkon dudi bafad as well as the long green bean or vaal bafad. Since the basic recipe for bafad is already available on this recipe blog, I will just refer to my earlier bafad recipes and you can just substitute the main vegetable there with a medium sized cauliflower for your cauliflower bafad.

Cauliflower Bafad Recipe

Long green beans Bafad

Bafad can be made from a lot of different vegetables like cauliflower, gerkins, long green beans, radish, brinjal and bottle gourd. Today I made bafad of long green beans which are known as irvilhas in Portuguese and vaal in Konkani so you can call this recipe vaal bafad or Irvilhas bafad as well.

Recipe for vaal bafad

Ingredients:

1 bunch long green beans, about 20 in number.

Coconut juice, thick and thin, of 1/2 coconut

2 onions, chopped fine

2 tomatoes, chopped fine

10 medium sized prawns

salt to taste, approx. 1 tspn.

2 green chillies, slit

1 tspn cumin seeds

5 flakes garlic

1 tblspn oil

Method:

Chopped vaal or long green beans

• Cut the long green beans and keep them aside. 
• Fry the onion in a non-stick cooking pan.
• Add the tomato.
• Add the prawns and keep stirring.
• Add the green chillies.
• Put in the thin coconut juice and bring to a boil.
• Add the  cut long green beans
• Simmer until cooked.
• Add the thick coconut juice, pounded cummin seeds and garlic and bring to a boil.
• Take off fire and serve with rice or chappatis.