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Recipe for Sweet Pumpkin Chutney
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Ingredients
- Sweet pumpkin small sized- Half
- Tamarind- Marble sized
- Grated coconut- Half cup
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Red chillies Byadagi- 2 to 3 nos.
- Coriander leaves- Handful
- Split black gram lentil- 2 tsp
- Cooking oil- 1 tsp
Instructions
Preparation
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Peel off the pumpkin using sharp knife and scoop out all the seeds. Chop the rind in to medium sized chunks.
Method
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Heat a cooking pan or wok with a tea spoon of oil, red chillies and split black gram lentils. Roast them together on medium heat till the lentils turn little brown and transfer the roasted ingredients to a plate.
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Put the chopped pumpkin pieces and tamarind to the same cooking pan and cook them till soft adding a cup of water. Once done let them cool down.
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In a mixer jar add roasted ingredients from step1, cooked pumpkin pieces, grated coconut, salt and coriander leaves. Grind them together to a coarse paste and transfet the chutney to a serving bowl.
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Sweet pumbkin chutney is delcious with dosa, idli and steamed rice.
Notes
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Adding coriander leaves to the chutney gives unique flavor. Do not skip it.
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If spiciness of red chillies is not enough, then you can add green chillies too as per your preference.
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Tamarind gets soft and eases grinding when you add it to cooking pumpkin pieces.
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