• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Privacy Policy
    • Disclaimer
  • Blog
FavCounter

FavCounter

Indian vegetarian food recipes & food stories

  • Home
  • Food Recipes
    • Breakfast
    • Snacks & starters
    • Drink
    • Main Course
    • Dessert
  • Home & Kitchen
  • Food & Foodie
  • Food & Travel

Homegrown karela vegetable; Karela in English name;

July 28, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment

Karela is a popular vegetable in India. Many karela haters also het surprised to know how such bitter vegetable be such popular one. Many people will say that their parents used to force them to eat karela when they were kid. It is a healthy vegetable. It helps in digestion system as well as develop taste. It contains various vitamins as well as minerals. Many people also not aware of its English name. Not only that many English speaking foreigners do not know that what is called karela in English. It is because they do not eat karela. Do you know karela vegetable in English name?

Well, without wasting any time, I would say…

Bitter gourd is Karela in English.

Karela vegetable is also know as bitter melon in English.

So now you know what is called karela vegetable in English. Right?

karela in english

Growing bitter gourd / bitter melon (Karela vegetable in English)

I love this vegetable of its bitterness. That is why, every year I grow some bitter gourd vines in my rooftop garden. Anybody can easily grow bitter gourds from seeds. As it is a climbing plant, so you needs to build a trellis to provide support to this plant. It grows very rapidly. So it also needs fertilizer time to time. As I am not an expert. But still, I am successful to grow plenty of vegetables for m family throughout the year. The key of my success is giving balanced fertilizer to my plant. I normally follow natural farming method to grow my plants.

karela vegetable in english

I add enough compost to the potting mix. 25-30% good quality compost fertilizer should be added with soil. Apart from that I add handful of need cake as well mustard cake in the soil. After that, I apply liuid fertilizer prepared with mustard cake after every 10 days.

  • I apply dashparni ark thrice a month. It works as insect repellent. 
  • Then I spray sour butter milk on my plants. That too I apply thrice a month. It works as an organic fungicide.
  • I usually avoid chemical inputs. But I have approx 5 kg of NPK 18 18 18 in my gardening inventory. I got that after winning a contest. So I also NPK 18 18 18 mixed with Sagarika seaweed extracts twice a month  within a gap of 10 day.
  • I also use organic micronutrients on my plants for once a month.

That is my schedule for my kitchen garden. I follow the same schedule for all of my plants. I can not apply different spray schedule for different plant like an expert. I want to keep gardening simple.

It helps to grow enough bitter gourd (karela in English name) vegetables every summer year after year.

bitter gourd vine

Also read:
All vegetable names in Hindi language; All sabji names in both languages
Food grains name in Hindi and English – A must read
Various types of millets in Hindi and English
All fruits names in both languages Hindi and English

bitter gourd fry

Dishes prepared with bitter gourd

Bitter gourd is used to make various traditional dishes. It is often added to mixed veg. But many people try to avoid bitter gourd in mixed veg because it changes the taste of other vegetables. So I prefer to have these awesome bitter gourd based dishes – bitter gourd fry, delicious bitter gourd pakoda, mouthwatering achari bitter gourd, taste Bengali style shukto.

All these are easy to make. You just need to follow simple traditional recipes to make all of those dishes. But the most common bitter gourd based dish prepared at my home is karela seddho or mashed boiled bitter gourd vegetable. Did you ever try it? It is very delicious and it helps you develop taste. Whenever there is a digestion issue of anybody in our family, karela seddho or shukto prepared with karela is a compulsory dish in our menu, haha. Sometimes boiled potato & boiled bitter gourd are mashed together.

Filed Under: Food & Foodie Tagged With: Vegetables

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe Us To Get All Future Posts

Deals & Offers On Kitchen Appliances

Food & Drink Recipes

Harvested turnip to cook shalgam curry; Desi fun in the city

desi dinner ideas homemade

Awesome desi dinner menu at home – Better than a restaurant

Taler payesh or Taler kheer

Delicious taler kheer | Taler payesh | Sweet palm pudding

Dahi puri chaat recipe

Bengali style Doi fuchka; Mouthwatering dahi puri chaat

Bread pakora

An amazing morning starts with bread pakoda with green chutney

Breakfast food recipes

Bengali village style breakfast – Kathal muri

Try tastiest mooli ka paratha prepared with homegrown radishes

Delicious Bengali bhat bhaja, Leftover rice fry with vegetables

Simple but tasty dal chawal breakfast

Chiwda pulao | Poha pulao – A delicious breakfast food

Appetizers Recipes

Bengali style Doi fuchka; Mouthwatering dahi puri chaat

An amazing morning starts with bread pakoda with green chutney

Delicious helencha pakoda; Crispy hinche shak bora

Footer

Tags

Appliance Selection Tips Bengali Bengali sweet Best Products Blogging Bread Breakfast Brinjal Curry Dal Deals & Offers Drink Festivals Food Foodie Food Menu Fruit Growing fruits Growing Herbs Growing vegetables Home & Kitchen Kitchen garden Leafy vegetables Lentils Mint Mushroom Noodles Pakoda Pancakes Paneer Potato Punjabi Raita Recipes Salad Snacks Soup Spices Street Food Summer drink Sweets Tea Tomato Vegetables Wedding

Copyright © 2023 · FavCounter · Privacy Policy· Disclaimer