Recipe: Eating on a Dime Stir fried Pumpkin with Potatoes/Aloo Kumro Chechki

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Stir fried Pumpkin with Potatoes/Aloo Kumro Chechki. Alu kumror chechki is a easy side dish recipe for your evening snacks or quick morning breakfast. It is a stir fried recipe with potato and pumpkin and traditional bengali spices. In Bengali the term 'Chechki' means vegetables which are shredded into sticks and stir fried.
Alu Kumro Chechki is a simple dry preparation made with sweet pumpkin and potatoes with a dash of spices.
This Bengali pumpkin curry can be served as a side dish with Rice or Indian bread.
To make this kumro tarkari, wash, peel and cut the pumpkin and potatoes into thin slices.
You can have Stir fried Pumpkin with Potatoes/Aloo Kumro Chechki using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Stir fried Pumpkin with Potatoes/Aloo Kumro Chechki
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Prepare 150 gm of pumpkin chopped.
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You need 2 of medium potatoes chopped.
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It’s 1 of onion chopped.
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It’s 1/4 tsp of red chilli powder.
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You need 1 pinch of turmeric powder.
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You need 3-4 of green chillies.
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You need To taste of salt.
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Prepare to taste of Sugar.
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It’s 1 tbsp of mustard oil.
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Prepare 1/4 tsp of nigella.
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It’s 1/4 tsp of Fennel.
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You need 1/4 tsp of Fenugreek.
Only God knows how much I have been craving this traditional Bengali dish of kumro or pumpkin, which is so popular among the Bengalis.
But, it is very hard to find the perfect original recipe of Kumro'r Chechki, leave along Bengali niramish ranna recipes (Bengali Vegetarian recipes).
In the remaining oil add zeera, once the zeera starts popping up and the aroma starts coming add the fried potatoes, pumkin and tomato.
Mix well and put the lid on.
Stir fried Pumpkin with Potatoes/Aloo Kumro Chechki step by step
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Peel the outer green portion of pumpkin and slice and chop into sticks.Smear little salt and set aside.Similarly peel the potato and slice into sticks.Chop the onion.Heat oil in a pan and sprinkle kalonji (nigella),sauf (fennel) and methi(fenugreek)seeds.Now fry the chopped onion lightly.Add the chopped potato and little salt and fry in low flame.When the potato is half done,add the chopped pumpkin and toss.Add salt and sugar to taste.Add turmeric,red chilli powder and broken green chillies..
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Cover and let it cook on low flame.If needed a sprinkling of little water may be added or microwave 2 minutes,toss and microwave 1 minute.Serve with any Indian puffed or flat bread..
Heat oil in a pan and fry the dumplings well,keep aside.
A simple stir fry with pumpkin zested with panch phoron and spiced up with red chilly powder.
Just makes an awesome side enjoy with rice dal or Roti.
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Pepe Kumro Chechki (Raw Papaya & Pumpkin Stir Fry - Bengali Style). "Kumro" in Bangla means pumpkin.