Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, white pumpkin (winter melon) in buttermilk sauce (morkuzhambu in tamil). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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In this recipe I have used ash gourd aka white pumpkin. Thus this recipe is also called as vellai poosanikai kootu in tamil. Vellai Poosanikai or Pooshanikai has lot of English names - Winter Melon, Ash gourd or the simple English translation as White pumpkin.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have white pumpkin (winter melon) in buttermilk sauce (morkuzhambu in tamil) using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make White Pumpkin (winter melon) in Buttermilk Sauce (morkuzhambu in Tamil):
- Make ready 1/4 cup split moong
- Make ready 2 cups white pumpkin pieces
- Take 1 tbsp coriander seeds
- Get 1 tbsp channa
- Prepare 1 tbsp urad
- Get 2 green chillies
- Prepare 1 cup coconut pieces
- Make ready 1 inch peeled ginger
- Take 1 tbsp sesame seed oil
- Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp Fennel seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Make ready 1 pinch asafoetida
- Prepare 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Take to taste salt
- Take 1/4 cup curry leaves
Buttermilk Kuzhambu or Mor Kuzhambu(Tamil) is a commonly prepared dish in Tamil Nadu. This is a liquid curry recipe which is served with white or boiled rice, pancake made of lentils / mixed gram dosa. Traditionally, it includes vegetables like okra, winter melon or ash gourd, colocasia, etc. The taste is a bit sour, and it is a dish of Tamil Nadu.
Instructions to make White Pumpkin (winter melon) in Buttermilk Sauce (morkuzhambu in Tamil):
- Make a checklist, collect required ingredients, and keep them within your reach.
- Collect ingredients.
- Cook mung dhal with water in a pressure cooker. - To make buttermilk, whisk curd in a cup of water, - Over medium heat, in a saucepan with oil, fry fennel, fenugreek green chiles, coriander seeds, urad and channa. Turn of the heat. Soak the contents in a bowl.-15 minutes. Blend with ginger and coconut in a wet grinder to make a smooth paste.
- Over medium heat in a saucepantemper mustard seeds and asafetida in hot oil. Stir fry pumpkin pieces in until it gets soft. Add 2 cups of water. Bring it to boil. Stir in cooked moong. Simmer the heat. Stir in buttermilk and coconut paste. Stir in turmeric powder, Turn of the heat after a couple of minutes. Salt to taste. Add curry leaves. Morkuzhambu is ready to serve, Taste, Serve with rice, papad and vegetable
Grind it along with green chillies and coconut to a smooth paste and keep aside. Cook ashgourd (white pumpkin) in a little water with salt until tender. I dip paper towel in sesame seed oil to grease the skillet (I use pre seasoned cast iron skillet). Instructions In medium saucepan heat buttermilk, chicken flavor and cornstarch mix with whisk and heat until it comes to a boil over medium heat. The sauce will thicken as it cools.
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