By Nikita Toppo
Bitter gourd aka karela has compounds that act like insulin which helps in bringing glucose into cells that is good for lowering blood sugar. Here are five ways to add karela to your diet.
Combine bitter gourd along with cucumber, cumin seeds and dry red chilli to prepare his nutritious salad.
Made with a hint of ginger, lemon juice and chaat masala, this is the simplest way to incorporate bitter gourd in your diet.
Made by stir-frying karela with onion and a few spices, it can be paired with both rice as well as roti.
Grind bitter gourd and roast it with a few spices and stuff it inside your regular paratha and you are good to go.
This warm and soothing soup is another easy and interesting way to add karela to your diet.
This flavourful curried side dish goes well with roti and rice for lunch as well as dinner.