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Healthy Food Recipes - Sweet pumpkin chutney ( Parangikai chutney)
Posted on: 11/Nov/2014 4:53:25 PM
Ingredients:
- Sweet pumpkin 250 gm
- Onion 5 No
- Tomato 3 No
- Urad dal 3 spoon
- Bengal gram 1 spoon (optional)
- Ginger as required
- Curry leaves a hand full
- Coriander leaves as required
- Coconut as required
- Tamarind as required (optional)
- Salt as required
- Oil as required
- Mustard and asafetida as required
- Red Chilli - 3 No
Method:
- Peel off the skin from sweet pumpkin and cut it into fine pieces
- Heat a pan and add oil. Add urad dall and Bengal gram (if required) and dry red chillies. Fry them all and keep it separate
- Heat a pan again and add some oil. Add curry leaves, coriander, ginger, onion and sweet lime one followed by the other
- Cook the mixture for about five minutes and then add chopped tomatoes
- Take the fried dal (as in step 2) and grind it in a mixer together with coconut and salt. Add the pumpkin mixture to this and grind all together.
- You can add mustard seasoning to this
Note:
- Before grinding in mixer, make sure that the entire mixture gets cooled down
- Make sure that you add the fried pumpkin mix only after grinding dry fried dal mix
- If you prefer to add tamarind flavor, you can add it as required
- Those who are in diet may avoid use of coconut
- In chutneys of this type, you can add curry leaves and coriander right when you fry the vegetables
- As they get ground together with the vegetables, it will get mixed together with the chutney mixture
- This goes good with Chappathi, Dhosai and rice as well
- Sweet pumpkin is too good for health. This vegetable is recommended for frequent consumption
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
