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The skin of the vegetable is used in making a dry spicy chutney preparation. It is consumed in Assam with fish curry , as boiled vegetable curry and also fried with potato and tomatoes. Lauki kheer (grated bottle gourd, sugar and milk preparation) is a dessert from Telangana , usually prepared for festive occasions.
Due to the use as a scrubbing sponge, it is also known by the common names dishrag gourd, rag gourd, sponge gourd, and vegetable-sponge. [1] It is also called smooth luffa to distinguish it from the ridged luffa ( Luffa acutangula ), which is used for the same purposes.
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Luffa is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the pumpkin, squash and gourd family (Cucurbitaceae).. In everyday non-technical usage, the luffa, also spelled loofah [3] or less frequently loofa, [4] usually refers to the fruits of the species Luffa aegyptiaca and Luffa acutangula.
Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd, [4] [5] also called ash gourd, [6] white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, [6] Chinese preserving melon, [6] is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is native to South and Southeast Asia.
Pinakbét (also called pakbét) is a traditional Filipino vegetable dish that originates from the Ilocos Region of the Philippines.The dish consists of a variety of vegetables and flavored with bugguóng munamón (bagoóng isdâ or fermented anchovies) or armáng (alamáng or fermented shrimp or krill paste).