Leela's Kitchen

Ingredients

1. 1/2 cup Tur dal or masoor dal (half cooked)
2. 1/4 kg Yellow pumpkin
3. 6 Green chilly cut length wise
4. 1/2 tsp turmeric
5. 1/2 cup grated coconut
6. 1 tsp Jeera
7. 2 Small onions
8. Few Curry leaves
9. Salt to taste

For seasoning:

1. 1 tbsp Oil
2. 2 Dry chillies
3. 1 tsp Mustard
4. Few Curry leaves
5. 5 small onions cut into thin round shape for seasoning

Method :

1. First grind coconut, jeera and 2 small onions into a paste. Add few curry leaves and grind again for a second.
2. Remove the skin of the pumpkin and cut into medium size. Clean it and cook with half – cooked dal. When the pumpkin become soft add turmeric powder and the coconut paste prepared earlier. Cook in low flame. Switch it off before it starts boiling to avoid curdling.

Seasoning:

Heat the kadai. Add 2 tbspoon full oil and add whole red chilly cut into 2 pieces.
Add mustard. When it splutters add curry leaves and cut onions. Fry till it becomes brown.
Then pour into the curry and close it with lid.

A good accompaniment for rice or chapati.