Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. This is a no onion & no garlic recipe.
Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have healthy pumpkin curry (kootu curry) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry):
- Make ready 1/4 cup Soaked Chick peas/ channa (brown is healthy)
- Get 3 tbsp Soaked Black eyed peas or any beans u like
- Prepare 1/4 kg Yellow Pumpkin
- Prepare salt
- Make ready 1 pinch turmeric powder
- Make ready 3 tbsp grated coconut
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 2 clove garlic cloves
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder
- Take 1 tsp Coconut oil
- Get 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- Prepare 6 curry leaves
- Make ready 1 small dry red chilly
- Prepare 1 pinch urid dhal
Add aubergine and curry paste, stir to cook for a couple minutes. Add cooked cubed pumpkin, coconut milk, brown sugar, turmeric and pinch of salt and bing to simmer, then add chickpeas and lemon juice. Kerala Kootu Curry Recipe is a very traditional north Kerala dish that is made from Yellow Pumpkin cooked along with Desi Channa or Black Eyed Beans and spiced with coconut. When I first had this dish in an ayurvedic restaurant I fell in love with it.
Steps 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
Kerala Kootu Curry Recipe is a very traditional north Kerala dish that is made from Yellow Pumpkin cooked along with Desi Channa or Black Eyed Beans and spiced with coconut. When I first had this dish in an ayurvedic restaurant I fell in love with it. The beans you wish to add is purely your choice and taste. 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. 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.
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