Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Pumpkin curry recipe - South Indian style pumpkin kootu made with red pumpkin, lentils, coconut, spices & curry leaves. This curry tastes delicious and is also super easy to make. It needs only pantry staples & goes so well with plain rice or roti.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry):
- Prepare 1/4 cup Soaked Chick peas/ channa (brown is healthy)
- Get 3 tbsp Soaked Black eyed peas or any beans u like
- Get 1/4 kg Yellow Pumpkin
- Make ready salt
- Make ready 1 pinch turmeric powder
- Prepare 3 tbsp grated coconut
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 2 clove garlic cloves
- Get 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Coconut oil
- Make ready 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- Take 6 curry leaves
- Take 1 small dry red chilly
- Make ready 1 pinch urid dhal
Try this and write your reviews. Here is how you achieve that. Kootu curry recipe with step by step photos - kootu curry also known as koottukari or kootu kari is a thick curry based dish made with a few veggies and legumes. The veggies that are added are yam, ash gourd, carrots, snake gourd, pumpkin or plantains.
Instructions to make Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry):
- Cut Pumpkins into small cubes. Set aside the soaked channa and black eyed beans. ( can be soaked for 3hours)
- Pressure cook the soaked Black channa and black eyed peas till it is done.
- Once they are done, add the cut Pumpkins, salt and turmeric powder with them and just cook it for one whistle.
- Grind coarsely the grated coconut, cumin seeds, red chilly powder and garlic cloves. Just grind roughly
- Open the pressure cooker, check the pumpkin, it should be soft. No matter if it loses its shape.
- Switch on the flame, heat a pan add oil to that and temper mustard seeds, red chilly, urid dhal, curry leaves.
- Add the boiled things and ground coconut mixture, mix and cover the pan for 2 minutes.
- After two minutes open the pan, mix well, check for salt and allow it to boil for few seconds and remove from fire.
- Serve this with rice, chappati or other Indian bread varieties. Can adjust spiciness according to your taste. Can add other grams or beans also
The legumes added are black chickpeas (kala chana) or bengal gram (chana dal). Pumpkin Kootu is made using Yellow Pumpkin (Paragikai), Moong dal & ground coconut. The nice aroma and flavor of Pumpkin with coconut, cumin ground paste is very appetizing and tasteful. Pumpkin added in vathakuzhambu, sambar brings a nice aroma and flavor to the dishes. Poosanikai Kootu, a simple curry made with yellow pumpkin and also it is one of the dish that we used to prepare on pongal festival without fail.
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