Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish
Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, papaya and pumpkin koottu - side dish. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish 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. Take pumpkin, onion, green chillies in a pot and add salt and turmeric powder.

Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook papaya and pumpkin koottu - side dish using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish:
  1. Prepare 1 Cup papaya Raw cut in cubes
  2. Take 1 Cup Pumpkin cut in cubes (with skin)
  3. Get 1 Cup Tomatoes diced
  4. Prepare 1/2 Cup Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal)
  5. Take To Taste Salt
  6. Make ready 5 Black pepper corns
  7. Prepare 3 Green chillies
  8. Make ready 1 Onion diced
  9. Make ready 1 Tablespoon mustard Black
  10. Take 1 Tablespoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
  11. Take 3 Tablespoons Oil for garnish ('tadkaa')
  12. Make ready 1 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
  13. Get 5 dates Dried (de-seeded)

Then add sugar and cook until sugar dissolves. (Traditionally sugar is added to this kootu but I have added jaggery as I do not prefer to use sugar). Mix rice flour with milk without lumps. We prepare different types of kootu dishes for our lunch and most of the kootu varieties can be easily identified with its taste and texture. But this raw papaya kootu is completely different.

Instructions to make Papaya and Pumpkin Koottu - Side Dish:
  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

We prepare different types of kootu dishes for our lunch and most of the kootu varieties can be easily identified with its taste and texture. But this raw papaya kootu is completely different. You won't believe this dish is made with raw papayas. There is no smell of papayas and the taste was so amazing with sambars, rasam and even for chapathis. The addition of cooked moong dal and the.

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