a sweet and spicy sabzi or dry vegetable prepared from kaddu/pumpkin. This is a very simple and easy-to-make sabzi that uses basic ingredients but is full of flavours.
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2dried kokumor about ½ teaspoon dry mango powder/amchur powder
¼teaspoondhaniya powder/coriander seeds powder
¼teaspoonjeera powder/cumin seeds powder
1teaspoonjaggery/gur
salt to taste
small bunch of coriander leaveschopped
Instructions
Wash, peel and cut pumpkin into cubes.
Soak kokums in a bowl of water for 10 minutes.
Heat oil in a non-stick pan and add mustard seeds. Once seeds crackle, add jeera, methi dana, hing, slit green chilli and pumpkin cubes. Mix, cover and cook for about 6-8 minutes – till 90% cooked on a medium flame. Stir twice in-between.
After 6-8 minutes, open the lid and mix well. Then add soaked kokum (or amchur powder), jaggery, salt, dhaniya powder and jeera powder. Mix well, cover and cook for 3-4 minutes or till done on a medium flame. Stir in-between.
Check whether pumpkin cubes are cooked or not. If they are not cooked, cover and cook for a few more minutes.
Switch off the flame and add chopped coriander leaves. Serve with phulka rotis or parathas.