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Pumpkin Chutney-How to make Pumpkin Chutney

April 3, 2011 by PadhuSankar 39 Comments

Have you ever tried Chutney with pumpkin? If your answer is no, then I would strongly recommend you to try this chutney. It tastes awesome. It can be had with pain hot rice topped with ghee or as a side dish for chapati or parathas. While buying pumpkin for preparing this chutney, choose pumpkin which is light yellow in color as shown in the picture.Try this easy and delicious chutney and enjoy the health benefits of pumpkin, which is low in calories and full of beta-carotene.

Pumpkin chutney
Pumpkin Chutney/Pumpkin Thuvaiyal


Ingredients needed

Chopped pumpkin (parangikai) – 2 cups (peel the skin and chop it)
Mustard -1 tsp
Urad dal – 2 tbsp
Red chillies – 2-3
Hing – a pinch
Whole black pepper -3-4
Tamarind – small piece
Curry leaves – little

Method

Heat a tbsp of oil and saute pumpkin till soft. Keep aside.

Heat 2 tsp of oil in the same pan, add mustard seeds, when they sputter, add hing, urad dal, red chillies, black pepper and curry leaves.

Saute till dal turns golden brown. Grind it along with cooked pumpkin, salt and tamarind.

Serve it with hot rice topped with ghee or with chapati.

Another delicious Pumpkin recipe (Indian style)

Pumpkin Curry

More Thuvaiyal recipes

Pudina Thuvaiyal-Mint thuvaiyal

Ridge gourd skin thuvaiyal

Coconut thuvaiyal

Meet you all again with another interesting recipe, till then it is bye from Padhu of Padhuskitchen.com

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  1. Rani acharyulu

    April 3, 2011 at 11:19 am

    Pumpkin chutney looks delicious and tasty too.Great post.

    Reply
  2. Jaisy James

    April 3, 2011 at 11:46 am

    looks delicious

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  3. Priya

    April 3, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    Chutney with pumpkin looks soo delicious and tempting..

    Reply
  4. Nandini

    April 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    The chutney looks very yummy and tasty! Slurp!

    Reply
  5. Ramya

    April 3, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Thatz a very new recipe to me:-) Looks very inviting..Bookmarked!!

    Reply
  6. Harika's Kitchen

    April 3, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Pumpkin chutney awesome never tried this. sld try it once.

    Reply
  7. Angie's Recipes

    April 3, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Never had pumpkin chutney..sounds so tempting.

    Reply
  8. Ananda Rajashekar

    April 3, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    Oh wat a innovative recipe! looks great 🙂

    Reply
  9. Priya Sreeram

    April 3, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    nice recipe-looks gud !

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  10. SravsCulinaryConcepts

    April 3, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    pumpkin chutney is new to me !! looks so inviting and delicious !!

    Reply
  11. Raksha

    April 3, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    I never knew we can do chutney out of pumpkin

    Reply
  12. Suja Sugathan

    April 3, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    Yummy pumpkin chutney..looks awesome.

    Reply
  13. Sowmya

    April 3, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Innovative and interesting recipe…I love it!

    Vegetarian Cultural Creatives

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  14. Shabitha Karthikeyan

    April 3, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Never tried making this chutney. Sounds interesting will try it soon.

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  15. Swarnavalli Suresh

    April 4, 2011 at 12:33 am

    Never trieda pumpkin chutney.. this is good.. My mom makes chutney with the fleshy stingy part of the pumpkin…

    Reply
  16. Vidhya

    April 4, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Never had chutney with Pumpkin,sounds and looks so tempting.

    Reply
  17. Yummy Team

    April 4, 2011 at 2:19 am

    Never heard of pumpkin chuney before..Looks delicious! Simple recipe..

    Reply
  18. GEETHA ACHAL

    April 4, 2011 at 3:11 am

    Me too…Never tried this chutney…Sure do try this…Thanks for sharing…

    Reply
  19. Swathi

    April 4, 2011 at 3:20 am

    Pumpkin chutney looks delicious. Amma used to make it.

    Reply
  20. Vimitha Anand

    April 4, 2011 at 3:48 am

    New to me but wWould be a yum combination with dosas…

    Reply
  21. Aruna Manikandan

    April 4, 2011 at 5:07 am

    sounds new to me…
    looks healthy and delicious dear 🙂

    Reply
  22. Zareena

    April 4, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Wow Padhu, pumpkin chutney!!! never tried this before.

    Reply
  23. Sushma Mallya

    April 4, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Never tried this …but looks delicious!

    Reply
  24. Now Serving

    April 4, 2011 at 10:25 am

    love this thogayal – I make this kind with zucchini, chow-chow and bell peppers – So I know how delicious you thogayal must taste 🙂 Now you've given me a new veggie to try – Thanks dear!

    Reply
  25. Madhu

    April 4, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Padhu this is uncooked chutney right? Can I make this with cooked pumpkin?

    Reply
  26. PadhuSankar

    April 4, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Dear Madhu
    I have mentioned in the first step itself that you have to saute and cook pumpkin till soft.So it is not uncooked chutney

    Reply
  27. Suman Singh

    April 4, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    Sounds new to me but looks so yummy..thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  28. Kairali sisters

    April 5, 2011 at 2:54 am

    Chutney with pumpkin sounds yummy, shall try this soon, padhu..

    Reply
  29. An Open Book

    April 5, 2011 at 11:04 am

    i should try this out during pumpkin season

    Reply
  30. Kanchana Radhakrishnan

    April 5, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    Never tried this …but looks delicious.

    Reply
  31. Lena Rashmin Raj

    April 5, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    woww.. never thought of such a chutney.. a very good way to make use of pumpkin Padhu 🙂

    Reply
  32. nirmal's blog

    April 5, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    You have a nice blog.Please accept an award from my space.
    http://nimmuguru.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-award.html

    Reply
  33. Deepa Praveen

    April 6, 2011 at 9:22 am

    very nice chutney…very yummy

    Reply
  34. suma sekar

    June 17, 2013 at 1:44 am

    thanks for the recipe. tried it. simple,easy to cook and good in taste for roti

    Reply
  35. shiva dharini

    April 22, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Hi Padhu… Im enjoying each and every recipe of urs… Everything has something different in it and that tastes soo yummy … I have tried many of ur recipes .. And this pumpkin chutney recipe is one of the best recipes .. I tried it today and could not resist from commenting .. Thank you so much .. Keep posting new recipes …

    Reply
  36. Pramila Suresh

    May 5, 2016 at 2:35 am

    Wow! Tried it. It was awesome.Thanks for such an innovative recipe.

    Reply
  37. rups

    November 4, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Tried many recipes. All have come out awesome. Hats off to you…. Keep posting new receipes. Will surely try this one….. Cheers

    Reply
  38. Ramya

    September 11, 2019 at 2:36 pm

    for how many people u gave given the chutney measurement ?

    Reply
    • PadhuSankar

      September 13, 2019 at 11:24 am

      Most of my recipes serve 3-4 only unless otherwise mentioned.

      Reply

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