Parangikai Puli Kuzhambu

This is to be served with rice, the vegetable side dish to accompain this could be some this less spicy like cabbage or beans or carrot poriyal. This kuzhambu will taste good only when it is spicy, for that matter any Puli Kuzhambu. And it will be yummy to have with hot idly with ginglee oil over the idlies.


Ingredients:

• Yellow Pumpkin - 500 gm
• Tamarind - a lemon sized
• Rock Salt - 2 tsp
• Small Onions - 1/2 cup
• Garlic - 5 - 6 pods
• Tomato - 1
• Kuzhambu chilli powder - 1 tbsp
• Red Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
• Split urudh dhal - 1/2 tsp
• Fenukreek - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper - 1/2 tsp
• Red Chilli - 2
• Curry leaves - 2 strings
• Oil - 4 tb sp
• Jaggery - 1/2 tbsp

Method:

Cut the yellow pumpkin into cubes. Take the skin off.

Peel the onions and garlic. If they is big then cut into two else keep it whole.

In a kadai pour the oil, season it with urudh dhal, fenugreek, pepper, red chillies, asafoetida and curry leaves.

Then add the onions and garlic. Keep in high and sauté briskly. Now add the pumpkin pieces. Hold the vessel with cloth and toss once every five minutes. Sauting with a ladle may break the pumpkin pieces.

In a bowl pour water to the tamarind and salt. Make solution of it. Darin and squeeze and mash the tomato in it. To that add Kuzhambu chilli powder, Turmeric powder and chilli powder to it. Mix with a spoon and check for salt and spice.

Mean while keep tossing the pumpkin so that it gets cooked well. You can close it with a lid and also cook from half way.

When it is cooked 3/4th pour the tamarind and spice solution into the kadai. Add water if needed the pumpkins must be immersed. Let it to boil well till the oil comes and floats on top and it thickens.

Add the grater jaggery to it, let it to boil for another 5 minutes and turn off.

Note: You can add a little of gingelly oil if you feel it is too spicy, that will also add taste to the kuzzhambu. Adding jaggery is optional. For Kuzhambu chilli powder you can refer my Kuzhambu podi recipe. Other wise Add 2 tsp of chilli powder and 3 tsp of coriander powder.