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

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook papaya and pumpkin koottu - side dish using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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. Get 1/2 Cup Lentils Yellow (Moong Dal)
  5. Take To Taste Salt
  6. Take 5 Black pepper corns
  7. Prepare 3 Green chillies
  8. Prepare 1 Onion diced
  9. Prepare 1 Tablespoon mustard Black
  10. Prepare 1 Tablespoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
  11. Prepare 3 Tablespoons Oil for garnish ('tadkaa')
  12. Prepare 1 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
  13. Make ready 5 dates Dried (de-seeded)
Steps 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

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