Pumpkin peel / Mathanga tholi thoran with dry red beans
Posted On 09-Oct-2007 at 10:58 AM by Seena
Don't discard your pumpkin peels next time, just cook a delicious side dish..
Ingredients
Pumpkin skin 1 cup
Dry red beans 1 cup
Turmeric powder 1 tsp
Small onions chopped 4
Coconut grated ½ cup
Garlic cloves crushed 2 big
Green chillis 2
Curry leaves
Salt
Coconut oil
Mustard
Wash and chop pumpkin skin. Cook dry beans. When it is over, cook pumpkin peel with it adding little salt and water. Reduce water. Chop small onions, mix it with grated coconut, turmeric powder and curry leaves by crushing well with hands. Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, and fry crushed garlic and green chillies, for few seconds add coconut mixture. Stir well for few seconds also. Add the cooked red beans, pumpkin peel preparation to this and mix well .check salt.
Mathan / Pumpkin Pachadi
Posted On 26-Aug-2007 at 4:15 PM by Seena
HAPPY ONAM!
Here is a simple side dish for Onasadya.
Ingredients
Pumpkin ½ kg
Small onions 4
Garlic 1 clove (avoid if you don’t like)
Coconut grated 1 cup
Curry leaves few
Green chilly 3 chopped finely
Cumin seeds ½ tea spoon
Mustard to grind 1 tea spoon
Curd ¾ cup
Salt
Coconut oil
How to prepare
Peel and cut pumpkin.
Cook with chopped green chilies in water just enough to cook.
Grind small onions, garlic, mustard, cumin seeds, coconut grated etc with little curd.
Make a smooth solution.
Mix this with cooked pumpkin.
Heat it, don’t boil.
Add remaining curd and salt.
Mix well.
Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves, pour in to the curry.
Erissery/pumpkin and dry red beans curry
Posted On 12-Mar-2007 at 11:10 AM by SeenaIngredients and Method
Dry red beans – 1//2 cup
Turmeric powder -1/2 tea spoon
Pepper powder- ½ tea spoon
Coconut grated – ½ cup
Dry red chilly -1
Coconut grated – 1 table spoon
Cumin – a pinch
Curry leaves
Salt
Coconut oil
Cook red bean with water and salt.
Cook pumpkin with turmeric, pepper, salt and water enough to cover.
Mix both the above.
Blend coconut with small onions and cumin.
Pour this in the mixture of pumpkin and red beans.
Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds add red chilly, grated coconut(1 table spoon) and curry leaves.
Fry till the coconut turns brown.
Pour in the curry.
I would prepare the same curry using yam, horse gram etc. using horse gram instead of red beans brings a different taste.
