Before going to the recipe, I would like to share a small personal note.These vegetables are from my small organic kitchen garden. I felt so happy that my efforts are fruitful and I could harvest toxic free vegetables. I did not use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides but just compost from my own kitchen and garden waste. I am posting this picture as it might inspire somebody out there. Let us try not to waste kitchen, garden waste, instead convert them into rich manure.
Parangikai Kootu-Yellow Pumpkin Gravy
Prep Time : 10 mins
Serves: 4
Recipe Category: Side Dish
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Yellow Pumpkin – 3 cups chopped
Tur dal – 1/3 cup
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Onion – 2 chopped
Tomatoes – 2
Ginger – 1 inch piece finely chopped
Fry and grind
Red chilli -3
Whole black Pepper – 1/3 tsp
Roasted Peanuts – 1 tbsp
Graded coconut -1/4 cup
For the seasoning
Oil -2 tsp
Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
Curry leaves – few
1.Peel,chop pumpkin into cubes and cook in little water adding salt and turmeric powder. Do not pressure cook as it will become mushy.
2.Heat a tsp of oil, fry pepper, red chilli and peanuts nicely and grind it along with grated coconut. Keep it aside.
3.Blanch tomatoes and take tomato puree.
4.Pressure cook toor/tur dal till soft.
Keep everything ready, now to the method.
Method
Heat oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add onion, ginger, curry leaves and fry until onion turns transparent.
Then add the cooked pumpkin, ground paste, tomato puree, cooked dal, needed salt, mix well and cook on low flame until everything gets blended well.
Serve it with rice or as a side dish for chapati. Enjoy the health benefits of this humble vegetable.
More Pumpkin Recipes
Pumpkin Curry (different Subzi without tomato)
Ash gourd Raita (white pumpkin)
Meet you all again with more interesting recipes, until then it is bye from Padhu of Padhuskitchen.com
View Comments (33)
wow i love this...love it with rice....
A delicious sabzi. Looks fantastic.
Wow fresh veggies from ur garden,incredible..kootu looks super delicious dear..
love kootu, this looks so tempting and delicious.
Lovely curry this looks fab:)
just perfect dear perfect sabzi
Looks yummy.
Yummylicious gravy dear...am drooling! ;)
Comfort dish,flavorful and yummy
yummy dish...you made perfectly dear..