Apart from the traditional way of cooking the summer vegetables like sabji, thepla, muthiya, here are a few healthy ways to prepare bottle gourd, tori and tinda, those eternal summer vegetables.

1. Some preparations of
Indian summer
vegetables

2. Make a raita of this, seasoned with cumin, mint leaves and
mustard powder

3. Oven-grill tori , dudhi with Italian herbs, olive oil and garlic,
and serve on bruschetta
(French bread toast)

4. Stir-fry sliced tori, dudhi sliced red and yellow
peppers and onions
Pic courtsey:-http://www.telugudb.com

5. Use it in grated form as stuffing for omelette/
pudla

6. Cook tinda or any other gourd with a mild onion-
garlic-ginger tomato gravy

7. Pan-cook whole tindas, chopped dudhi, turai
with browned onion, garlic

8. Stir fry these veg with Chinese herbs
chopped spring onion, ginger-garlic, celery,
greens
Pic courtesy:-http://aromatic-cooking.blogspot.in

9. NJOY…….eating these summer veges
with a TWIST……