Ingredients:
Chopped Pumpkin : 1 to 1.5 cups
Toor Dal: ½ cup
Tomato: 1
Onion: 1
Green Chillies : 2
Dried Red Chillies : 1
Tamarind : Gooseberry size ball
Mustard Seeds : ½ tsp
Chana Dal : ½ tsp
Urad Dal: ½ tsp
Red Chilli Powder: ½ teaspoon or to taste
Turmeric Powder : ¼ tsp
Hing : ⅛ tsp
Curry Leaves : 1 sprig
Oil : 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Method:
1. Soak the tamarind in water for 10 minutes, then squeeze the extract out of it and set aside.
2. Wash, peel and chop the pumpkin into cubes. Put
the
rinsed toor dal dal, chopped pumpkin, slit green chillies, chopped
onion, chopped tomato and 1.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker and
cook till 3 whistles.
3. Turn off
the flame and wait until the pressure go off.
4. Heat a teaspoon of oil
in a vessel. Add the mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal,cumin seeds
and let them splutter.
5. Then add the broken red chillies, hing and curry
leaves to it and fry for a couple seconds.
6. Add the tamarind extract and
cook for a minute. Now add the dal mixture,
salt, red chilli powder and turmeric to it and cook for 5 minutes.
7. Switch off
the flame and serve hot with roti or steamed rice.
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Subhashini says
looks yummy ans so simple
kitchen queen says
delicious finger licking curry.
divya says
looks great.. drooling here 🙂
Kitchen Queen says
Lovely dish.
Veena Theagarajan says
simple and delicious.. I love anything with pumpkin
Anu says
Simple and comfort
WeR SAHM says
this pappu is really tempting to give an attempt hari....
Aruna Manikandan says
looks delicious dear 🙂
Priti S says
We dont add tamarind ....I will like your way ..looks very yum
Anu says
Gumadikaya pappu chala bagundi Hari..nice combination with roti/chapati..