Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu – Side Dish. 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.
See recipes for White pumpkin koottu too. It is very useful for weight reduction. Cook pumpkin with salt and just needed water until tender. (if there is excess water after cooking, you may drain it).
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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.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have papaya and pumpkin koottu – side dish using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu – Side Dish:
- {Take 1 Cup of papaya Raw cut in cubes.
- {Make ready 1 Cup of Pumpkin cut in cubes (with skin).
- {Take 1 Cup of Tomatoes diced.
- {Prepare 1/2 Cup of Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal).
- {Take To Taste of Salt.
- {Prepare 5 of Black pepper corns.
- {Make ready 3 of Green chillies.
- {Take 1 of Onion diced.
- {Get 1 Tablespoon of mustard Black.
- {Take 1 Tablespoon of Cumin seeds (Jeera).
- {Take 3 Tablespoons of Oil for garnish ('tadkaa').
- {Take 1 Teaspoon of Turmeric powder.
- {Take 5 of 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.
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. Asian flavors like sesame, garlic and ginger complement the mild flavors and textures of the bok choi and pumpkin. Recipe Category: Side Dish-Kootu Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Brahmin Author: Padhu Sankar Ingredients needed.
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