Thursday, January 29, 2009

Capsicum in Pumpkin Gravy


Ingredients:
  1. Pumpkin - 1 cup
  2. Capsicum - 1 small
  3. Tomatoes - 3 nos
  4. Cumin seeds -1 tsp
  5. Sugar - 2 tsp
  6. Cinnamon stick - 1 inch piece
  7. Maze flower - 1 pinch
  8. Cardamom - 1
Method :
  • Peel the skin of pumpkin boil it and grind to paste.
  • Then take 2 tomatoes blanch it, remove the skin and make a fine paste .
  • Now cut capsicum and one tomato saute in butter for few seconds and keep aside.
  • Take a thick bottomed pan, Add two tbs of oil and add cumin seeds ,cinnamon, maze flower,cardamom and sugar.
  • Let the sugar be caramalised then add grinded pumpkin and tomatoes , cook it till oil comes out.
  • Then add salt ,chili powder,coriander powder and saute for few seconds and then add finely chopped green chillies and ginger juliennes,and lastly add the capsicum and tomatoes that have been sauted in butter earlier.
  • Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with chapatis and puries.



2 comments:

curtis said...

I randomly stumbled upon this blog. Anyway, just wanted to say most everything looks delicious! Especially this pumpkin one.

Sk1204 said...

I was looking for something tangy and spicy in pumkin main course gravy.Came across this and couldnt resist trying it.It was soo easy and yummy that I think I could make it every week.The combination of the ingredients were awesome.Since pumpkin is sweet,the sugar along with chillies and ginger juliennes goes perfect.Thankyou v much Sharmila.Hope you keep posting some more recipes :)