Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce
Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, parangikaai kuzhambu / yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Parangikai vatha kuzhambu method: Cube yellow pumpkin. Take tamarind Add tamarind juice, parangikai, turmeric, sambar powder and required salt. Bring to boil, meanwhile grind coconut to paste with.

Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have parangikaai kuzhambu / yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce:
  1. Prepare 1/2 kg Yellow pumpkin
  2. Make ready 1 chilly slit green
  3. Prepare 5 curry leaves
  4. Get 200 ml tamarind or diluted tamarind Soaked extract
  5. Get to taste Salt
  6. Get jaggery
  7. Prepare 4 - 5 tbsps sesame oil
  8. Get 1 tsp mustard seeds
  9. Make ready 1 tsp fenugreek
  10. Take pinch asafoetida
  11. Get 1 tbsp channa dal
  12. Get 1 tbsp dal urid
  13. Get 4 tbsps sesame seeds (black / white)
  14. Take 2 tbsps coconut grated
  15. Make ready 7 chillies dry red
  16. Make ready 2 tbsps fenugreek seeds
  17. Prepare 2 tbsps channa dal
  18. Make ready 2 tbsps coriander seeds

Now keep kadai add gingelly oil add mustard and fenugreek and. Parangikaai or also called as Sevappu poshanikaai , is actually very sweet to taste and perfectly blends with a tangy spicy kuzhambu. Parangikaai kuzhambu is a recipe which my mother learnt from her grand mother. Kootu is a South Indian style sidedish prepared with dal, vegetable and ground coconut masala.

Steps to make Parangikaai Kuzhambu / Yellow pumpkin in tamarind sauce:
  1. Firstly chop the pumpkin into huge chunks, steep the tamarind in luke warm water for 10 minutes.
  2. Take a wok / kadaai and firstly dry roast sesame seeds on medium heat, transfer it to a blender jar, add grated coconut to this, in the same wok roast all the ingredients given under "roasting and grinding" until aromatic and transfer this to same blender jar, grind it to a fine powder.
  3. In the same wok add sesame oil, on medium heat, temper mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and asafoetida. Add the channa dal, urid dal, saute this until aromatic then add the chopped pumpkin with one slit green chilly.
  4. Saute the pumpkin until tender (will take about 4-5 minutes) on medium heat. Now add the tamarind extract and allow this to boil. Add required amount of salt.
  5. Once when this comes to a boil add few granules of jaggery, this is just to balance the taste do not add too much of it, because as it is the pumpkin is sweet in nature. Later add the freshly prepared powder to the boiling concoction and stir. Add about 200 ml of water to this, it will be too thick, so lean the consistency.
  6. Allow this to boil on medium heat for about 10 minutes or until the kuzhambu becomes thick.
  7. Serve it hot with plain rice or you can serve it as an accompanimet with Manja Pongal / Turmeric Pongal.

I have prepared kootu with yellow pumpkin / parangikai and served along with vendhaya kuzhambu, rasam, soya chunk podimas. Description: Parangi Kai (Yellow pumpkin) Puzhi Kuzhambu. Parangikkai Keerai Kuzhambu is a yellow pumpkin curry combined with spinach to make a delicious weeknight dinner. This is a favorite preparation where the combination of green chillies and coconut along with coriander seeds and jaggery adds a touch of spice and. Yellow Pumpkin is rich in beta carotene - a source of antioxidant which helps to reduce risk of cancer and heart disease.

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