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Recipe for Pumpkin Idli
Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 35 mins
Ingredients
- Pumpkin- A small piece
- Medium rava Fine semolina- 1 cup
- Jaggery powder- 3/4 cup
- Desiccated coconut- 1/4 cup
- Roasted sesame seeds- 2 tsp
- Salt- A pinch
- Ghee- 1 tsp
- Cashews- Few
Instructions
Preparation
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Peel off the skin from pumpkin and scoop out the seeds from it. Grate it using a good grater and keep aside two cups of grated pumpkin. Next roast the broken cashews in a tsp of ghee. Keep aside till use.
Method
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Take the medium rava in a pan. In medium flame roast it with constant stirring for about 5 minutes. Let it cool down. Then transfer it to a bowl along with jaggery powder, desiccated coconut, cashews, salt and roasted sesame seeds. Give a quick mix.
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Next add grated pumpkin to the same bowl and combine everything well. Now this mixture comes together like a loose dough. In a small plantain leaf, put a handful of this mixture and fold to steam cook.
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In a idli stand arrange these folded plantain leaves and steam for around 15 to 20 minutes.
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Golden colored delicious pumpkin idli is ready to devour as snack or breakfast.
Notes
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Roasting rava is very important otherwise the idli turns sticky.
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Additional water isn’t required for the rava and pumpkin mixture. The moisture in the pumpkin itself is enough to form loose dough.
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The sweetness was mild in my case, you can raise the jaggery quantity to 1 cup for real sweet taste.
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If you don’t have plantain leaves, you can steam cook them in idli moulds too.
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