Bottle Gourd

Also known as white gourd, marrow, calabash or long melons, bottle gourds are a fruit with a light green skin and white seedy flesh. They come in a variety of shapes, thick and rounded, small and bottle shaped or long and slim. The young fruits are eaten as a vegetable and the mature can be used as a bottle, pipe or utensil. Thus the name bottle gourd.

Lauki Halwa Recipe

A popular Indian dessert made with grated bottle gourd/lauki. It is perfectly sweetened, creamy pudding laced with nuts.

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Instant Bottle Gourd Pickle Recipe

Bottle Gourd or Ghiya Pickle is a simple, spicy chutney that goes well with paratha, chpaati and dal rice. It takes only few minutes to make it. Family members make annoying faces when it comes to eat bottle gourd in gravy form then introduce this recipe to them. They will surely start to love bottle gourd.

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Lauki Chips Recipe

Bottle gourd (Lauki) is a vegetable high on water and is a rich source of vitamin C, K and calcium. It helps in maintaining a healthy heart and brings down bad cholesterol levels.

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Ghiya Chana Daal Recipe

Ghiya chana dal recipe -A curry made in tomato puree with bottle gourd, split Bengal gram with mustard seeds & curry leaves flavor.

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