Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish

Name: Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 4-serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 Cup papaya Raw cut in cubes; 1 Cup Pumpkin cut in cubes (with skin); 1 Cup Tomatoes diced; 1/2 Cup Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal); To Taste Salt; 5 Black pepper corns; 3 Green chillies; 1 Onion diced; 1 Tablespoon mustard Black; 1 Tablespoon Cumin seeds (Jeera); 3 Tablespoons Oil for garnish ('tadkaa'); 1 Teaspoon Turmeric powder; 5 dates Dried (de-seeded)

Rajesh Krishna @cook_7798648

Cochin, Kerala

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.

Rajesh Krishna @cook_7798648

Cochin, Kerala

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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Ingredients

20 mins

4-serving

1 Cuppapaya Raw cut in cubes
1 CupPumpkin cut in cubes (with skin)
1 CupTomatoes diced
1/2 CupLentils Yellow (Moong Dal)
To TasteSalt
5Black pepper corns
3Green chillies
1Onion diced
1 Tablespoonmustard Black
1 TablespoonCumin seeds (Jeera)
3 TablespoonsOil for garnish ('tadkaa')
1 TeaspoonTurmeric powder
5dates Dried (de-seeded)

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Steps

20 mins

1

Add the yellow lentils in 5-6 cups of water and let is boil.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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..
5

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