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Pumpkin Recipes

Yellow pumpkin or parangikai kulambu recipe in tamil/eng description/Puli or Venthya Kuzhambu

INGREDIENTS:

Poosanikkai/Parangikai/Pumpkin – 1 single piece(cut in to cubes)

Big onions – 2-3

medium(chopped) Tomato(variety that is less tangy) – 2

(medium) Tamarind extract – juice

from medium-sized ball(lemon)

Coriander powder – 1tsp

Chilli powder – 1tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

Garlic pods crushed – 3-4

Fenugreek seeds and mustard seeds – 1 tsp(each)

Few curry leaves

Salt to taste

Gingelly Oil/nallenai – 2 tbsp + 2tbsp

Take juice from tamarind and mix with 3 cups of water and keep ready

Now keep kadai add gingelly oil add mustard and fenugreek and when seed splutter add curry leaves. Then onion,tomato and crushed garlic. Let it cook nicely by adding required salt. Then add the vegetable saute nicely. Add coriander,turmeric and chilli powder and mix nicely. Now add diluted tamarind extract and leave to boil till the vegetable is nicely cooked, add the powder. Cook for some more time till it becomes shiny and semi-gravy consistency. Switch off the stove and add remaining oil mix and serve with hot rice and applam.