Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry). 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.
You can cook Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry)
- Prepare 1/4 cup of Soaked Chick peas/ channa (brown is healthy).
- You need 3 tbsp of Soaked Black eyed peas or any beans u like.
- You need 1/4 kg of Yellow Pumpkin.
- Prepare of salt.
- You need 1 pinch of turmeric powder.
- You need 3 tbsp of grated coconut.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.
- It’s 2 clove of garlic cloves.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of Red chilly powder.
- You need 1 tsp of Coconut oil.
- You need 1/4 tsp of mustard seeds.
- Prepare 6 of curry leaves.
- You need 1 small of dry red chilly.
- Prepare 1 pinch of 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. 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. The veggies that are added are yam, ash gourd, carrots, snake gourd, pumpkin or plantains.
Healthy Pumpkin curry (kootu curry) instructions
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.
The legumes added are black chickpeas (kala chana) or bengal gram (chana dal). 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. Pumpkin - Grab fresh pumpkins during Fall or Winter, when they are in season. We will use both, pumpkin puree and cubes of pumpkin to make this Curry. Pumpkin is peeled, seeded, and cubed into bite-size chunks.
