- Cut the pumpkin into half. De-seed the pumpkin and peel the outer skin. Dice the pumpkin into cubes and boil it with water until soft and keep aside. Do not discard the water used for boiling. Use the water to soak the tamarind. Boil half a cup of toor-dal with 2 – 2.5 cups of water in a pressure cooker for 10 minutes. Reserve the excess water. Do not discard. Heat sesame oil in a pan until shimmering. Add in the mustard seeds, Urad-dal, cumin seeds and curry leaves. Let it splutter. Add in the Onions and saute till soft and translucent in medium flame. Roughly about 3-4 minutes. Then add in the tomatoes and saute till the tomatoes are soft. Roughly about a couple of minutes. Add in the tamarind pulp. Add in the salt, asafoetida, sambar powder and turmeric. Let it simmer for 10 minutes in low flame. Simmering helps in cooking the masala powders and the tamarind to cook completely. Now add in the boiled pumpkin and the boiled toor dal. If the consistency is too thick, add in the reserved left over water from the Dal. Let it simmer for another couple of minutes. Add in the coriander leaves. Remove from heat and serve it hot with rice.
Red pumpkin sambar
#myrecipe
By Shaalini Shaalu
Jan, 31st
570
Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
13
- 15
Ingredients
- Pumpkin
- Toor dal
- Oil
- Mustard
- Cumin
- Urad dal
- Curry leaves
- Onion
- Tomato
- Tamarind
- Sambar powder
- Turmeric
- Hing
- Salt
- Corinader
