Bitter Gourd Chutney

Bitter Gourd Chutney
Ingredients
Bitter gourd cleaned and minced 1 1 cup
Minced button onions ½ cup
Minced green Chillis green 6
Minced ginger ½ tsp
Tamarind lime size
Curry leaves 2 stalks
Salt water ¼ cup
Coconut Oil 2 oz.

Method
Put the minced bitter gourd in salt water and after some time clean well in it and squeeze out the juice and salt. That should be about a cup. Now mix all the minced ingredients and minced curry leaves in a pan. Mix the tamarind in ¼ cup salt water and squeeze out the pulp. Pour the tamarind pulp and the coconut oil in the bitter gourd, mix well. Take two or three plantain leaves and put them over the fire till they are limp. Put three layers of them and put the bitter gourd mixture and pack it into a neat parcel and tie them well with strips of the leaves and immerse in hot ashes for hours till it is cooked well. When it is cold, put it into cleaned jars and keep closed. (You can bake it in a slow oven.)