Pumpkin Delights!
This delicious pumpkin and ash gourd curry comes with a tamarind tang!
Course
Side Dish
Servings
Prep Time
3-4
people
10
minutes
Cook Time
30
minutes
Servings
Prep Time
3-4
people
10
minutes
Cook Time
30
minutes
Ingredients
1
cup
pumpkin
cubed
1
cup
ash gourd
cubed
1
small ball tamarind
1/4
tsp
Turmeric powder
salt to taste
To roast and grind
1/2
tbsp
urad dal
1/4
tbsp
Bengal gram
1/4
tsp
fenugreek seeds
3
Dried Red Chilies
1
cup
Scraped Coconut
1
tbsp
Oil
a few curry leaves
As tempering
2
tsp
coconut oil
1
tsp
Mustard seeds
Instructions
Soak the tamarind ball in a cup of water for ten minutes.
Extract the pulp from the tamarind water.
Mix another cup of water with the tamarind juice.
Put the pumpkin, ash gourd, salt and turmeric powder in the tamarind juice and boil on a stove until the vegetables are cooked.
Roast the urad dal, Bengal gram, fenugreek seeds, red chilies and coconut until the coconut turns light brown.
Stir the curry leaves in and remove from the flame.
Add half a cup of water to the mixture and grind it to a smooth paste.
Stir the paste into the cooked vegetables and simmer until the gravy begins to gather froth.
Then, remove it from the stove.
Fry the mustard seeds in the oil and stir them into the kuzhambu.
Garnish it with curry leaves and serve!