How to Autumn Delicious Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish

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Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish. Recipe Category: Side Dish-Kootu Recipe Cuisine: Tamil Brahmin Author: Padhu Sankar Ingredients needed. Avarakkai in other words called as broad beans is a wonderful legume which is rich in proteins and fibre. It is also a good source of minerals like potassium, iron and zinc.

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You can have Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish

1. It’s 1 Cup of papaya Raw cut in cubes.

2. It’s 1 Cup of Pumpkin cut in cubes (with skin).

3. You need 1 Cup of Tomatoes diced.

4. You need 1/2 Cup of Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal).

5. You need To Taste of Salt.

6. Prepare 5 of Black pepper corns.

7. You need 3 of Green chillies.

8. You need 1 of Onion diced.

9. Prepare 1 Tablespoon of mustard Black.

10. Prepare 1 Tablespoon of Cumin seeds (Jeera).

11. You need 3 Tablespoons of Oil for garnish ('tadkaa').

12. Prepare 1 Teaspoon of Turmeric powder.

13. Prepare 5 of dates Dried (de-seeded).

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Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish instructions

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.

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