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Vegetables · Summer
Tender bottle gourd, light and gentle on the stomach.
Bottle gourd, or dudhi, grows well through the warm months and is prized for being light, cooling, and easy to digest. Ours is grown in naturally fed soil and picked young and tender, when it is at its best for everyday curries, kofta, and simple home cooking.
Picked young and tender, not left to grow large and fibrous
Grown without any synthetic sprays
Light and easy on the stomach
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Bottle gourd, or dudhi, is a generous climbing vine that crops well through the warm months when it has healthy soil and steady moisture beneath it. We train the vines up so the fruit hangs clean and straight, and we pick young. A dudhi left too long on the vine turns fibrous and bland, so timing the harvest is half the work.
Dudhi has long been valued in Indian kitchens as a light, cooling vegetable that is gentle on the stomach and easy to digest, which is why it turns up so often in everyday home cooking and in food for anyone who is unwell. Grown naturally, without sprays, it is exactly the kind of plain, honest vegetable it is meant to be.
A tender dudhi is wonderfully versatile. Cook it into a simple sabzi with tomato, drop it into a dal, shape it into kofta, or make it sweet as dudhi halwa. Choose one that feels heavy and firm, with smooth pale skin, and keep it in the fridge for up to a week.
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