white pumpkin/kumbalangya curry

Name: White Pumpkin/Kumbalangya curry
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 250 gms white pumpkin; 3/4 cup tuvar; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1 tsp red chilli powder; 3 tbsp coconut (shredded); 1 tsp jeera; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 tsp mustard seeds; 1 unit/count onions; 1 tbsp salt; 2 sprig curry leaves; 2.5 cup water

@beena-gopalakrishnan

Cooking Time

45min

Prep Time

10 min

Serves

Categories

Curry

Dinner

Lunch

Main Dish

Cooking tools used

Mixer Grinder hungry democracy Pressure Cooker icon

Pressure Cooker

Cuisines

Indian

Indian - Kerala

Ingredients

Main Section

white pumpkin

250 gms

tuvar

3/4 cup

turmeric

1/2 tsp

red chilli powder

1 tsp

coconut (shredded)

3 tbsp

jeera

1 tsp

sunflower oil

1 tbsp

mustard seeds

1 tsp

onions

1 unit/count

salt

1 tbsp

curry leaves

2 sprig

water

2.5 cup

Authors Directions

Step 1

Soak tuvar dal for 30 mins. Cut pumpkin into small pieces. Then cook dal in cooker with water & cut pumpkin pieces in it. Also add turmeric & red chilly powder & give 7 to 9 whistles.

Step 2

Grind coconut into fine paste alongwith jeera & add it to dal/pumpkin after removing from cooker. Add salt & keep it on gas & boil for some time.

Step 3

After 5 minutes switch off the gas , put curry leaves in it & close it with a lid.

Step 4

Take oil in a kadai & temper mustard seeds in it & pour it over the dal/pumpkin curry. Pumpkin curry is ready to be served with rice.

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