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Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish Its an assortment of two of the healthy vegetables. Pumpkin - incredibly rich in vital antioxidants, and vitamins. Papaya - for its nutritional, digestive, and medicinal properties. Take pumpkin, onion, green chillies in a pot and add salt and turmeric powder.
Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have papaya and pumpkin koottu - side dish using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish:
- Get 1 Cup papaya Raw cut in cubes
- Take 1 Cup Pumpkin cut in cubes (with skin)
- Prepare 1 Cup Tomatoes diced
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal)
- Prepare To Taste Salt
- Make ready 5 Black pepper corns
- Make ready 3 Green chillies
- Make ready 1 Onion diced
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon mustard Black
- Take 1 Tablespoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
- Make ready 3 Tablespoons Oil for garnish ('tadkaa')
- Take 1 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Make ready 5 dates Dried (de-seeded)
Then add sugar and cook until sugar dissolves. (Traditionally sugar is added to this kootu but I have added jaggery as I do not prefer to use sugar). Mix rice flour with milk without lumps. We prepare different types of kootu dishes for our lunch and most of the kootu varieties can be easily identified with its taste and texture. But this raw papaya kootu is completely different.
Steps to make Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish:
- Add the yellow lentils in 5-6 cups of water and let is boil.
- Once lentils are half cooked, add the Pumpkin, Papaya and Tomatoes into the same dish and let them cook. Add salt and turmeric powder and stir, and bring to complete boil.
- Have the sliced onions, chilies, black pepper corns, mustard seeds, date fruit (de-seeded) heated in the microwave for 3 minutes / sauteed in dry pan until the dates are smoked.
- Put the above ingredients in the blender and make a paste out of it. Mix the spicy paste into the lentil mixture.. stir for a moment and close the fire..
- Heat the oil in a small pan, put the cumin seeds and mustard seeds and let is start spurting out. Close the fire.. and pour the oil to the Lentil Papaya Pumpkin koottu. Ideal to go with Dosas, or plain rice
We prepare different types of kootu dishes for our lunch and most of the kootu varieties can be easily identified with its taste and texture. But this raw papaya kootu is completely different. You won't believe this dish is made with raw papayas. There is no smell of papayas and the taste was so amazing with sambars, rasam and even for chapathis. The addition of cooked moong dal and the.
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