White Pumpkin Rasavangi

Description

Rasavangi is a dish mainly made with Brinjals, but i tried out with white pumpkin today. And voila taste wasnt tht bad!! try it out for urself and let me know…..
Ingredients
2 cup White pumpkin chopped
¼ cup Toor dal
¼ cup Tamarind (lime size)(extract the pulp)
2 T Chana dal
Salt to taste
pinch Hing
½ tsp Haldi
1½ tsp Rasam powder
1 tsp Jaggery
2 tsp Dhaniya seeds
2 tsp Coconut (grated)
4 Dry red chili
¼ tsp Raw rice
2 stks Curry leaves
½ tsp Mustard
2 T Til oil

Instructions

Cook the toor dal and keep aside.

For the Masala:

Heat 1 tsp oil and fry dhaniya, red chillies, raw rice till brown. Add coconut, switch off flame and keep aside. Cool and grind to paste. Take remaining oil, fry chana dal till brown and keep aside. Heat the remaining oil again, add mustard, curry leaves nd after it splutters, add pumpkin and saute. Add salt, hing, haldi, imli extract, rasam powder, fried chana dal and cook till soft. Add masala paste, cooked dal, jaggery and little water and boil. Serve hot with white rice.

 

Comments

6 responses to “White Pumpkin Rasavangi”

  1. shalinivenkatesh Avatar
    shalinivenkatesh

    ya sailaja u can try it out with yellow pumpkin too…

  2. rajiselva Avatar
    rajiselva

    If I don’t have have rasam powder ready made is there any other alternative

    rajiselva

    1. shalinivenkatesh Avatar
      shalinivenkatesh

      dear raji,

       u can either make rasam powder at home or try it with instant rasam powder made by grinding pepper and jeera together

      1. rajiselva Avatar
        rajiselva

        thanks shalini for your prompt reply

  3. ksailaja Avatar
    ksailaja

    Can I make this with yellow pumpkin

  4. ramyakalyankrishnan Avatar
    ramyakalyankrishnan

    I made it yesterday and it came out really good.My husband liked it very much.Thanks for posting it.