Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Pumpkin/Mathanga Erissery

A famous traditional kerala dish..


Ingredients

Pumpkin - 3 cups (cut into medium sized pieces)
Black eyed beans - 1/2 cup
Shredded Coconut - 1/4 cup
Garlic - 2 pod
Jeera - 1 tsp
Red chillies - 3
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - as needed


Method

Keep aside 1 tbsp of shredded coconut.Grind rest of the coconut with garlic ,jeera, red chillies and curry leaves into a paste.Pressure cook black eyed beans.In the same pressure cooker add pumpkin,turmeric powder,chilli powder and salt.Cook until pumpkin is almost soft.Dont overcook it.Add grounded coconut paste and cook until raw smell goes away.In another pan, heat coconut oil,Add mustard seeds,curry leaves,red chillies and coconut anf fry.Add this to the pumpkin mixture.Serve hot with rice.

20 comments:

Indian Khana said...

Hmm it's raining pumkin now...just saw something similar in A&N blog and now in urs..you looks gud more like gravy type.

notyet100 said...

hi maheshwari,.this looks yum,..u can snd thi for curry mela,..

Sagari said...

curry looks yumm maheshwari

Poornima said...

Lovely with kanji.Best food for a cold winter night here at Melbourne.Thanks for the recipe.

Cham said...

Pumpkin curry looks yum

Unknown said...

nice one..i loved your chow chow masala recip too.. Btw, i have passed yo uthe lamp of luck..see my blog for details..

Anonymous said...

This curry looks delicious.Love the colour of your curry.

Illatharasi said...

Lovely curry:) will try this!

Medhaa said...

Looks lovely, will try soon. thanks for sharing

EC said...

yummy...and nice dish too

USHA said...

Hi Maheswari,

Fine and hope so the same. Hope kids are keeping you busy....Wodnerful traditional recipes.

Getting busy these days, myparents and inlaws are with me now.Take care.Bye.

ST said...

Curry looks yummy and delicious....Will try this:))

Srivalli said...

that looks great...you can send this to my mela...thanks

and shall I add your blog under indian ???..you didn't let me know that!

Indranee Batabyal said...

Thanks Maheshwari!I think you can definitely combine fish with mango slices...will taste good. I am going to try it. The pumpkin curry looks beautiful!

mitr_bayarea said...

Maheswari- pumpkin eriserry looks yummy...thanks for sharing this traditional kerala recipe.

Shobana senthilkumar said...

Hi maheshwari,
nice blog with good yummy recipes...pumkin curry is tempting...thanks for sharing

Sujatha said...

Great looking Erisseri, Maheswari! A very new recipe to me.. Bookmarked :)

Unknown said...

wow! erissery is one of my favorites that m athai makes for me whenever i go to trivandrum! love the recipe...

Anonymous said...

Hi, I'm new to your site...it's very helpful as I am an amateur at Indian cooking. One question...you said at the beginning to grind the red chiles with the coconut and then later to splutter the red chiles and curry leaves...so, which do I do? Or, am I supposed to divide the red chiles and curry leaves so that I can do both?

Unknown said...

You can divide the amount of red chillies and do both.