red pumpkin curry (parangikai curry)

ingredients

• Red pumpkin - 200 gms
• Jaggery (grated) - 2 tbl.sp.
• Grated coconut - 1 tbl.sp.
• Mustard - 1/2 tsp.
• Red chillies - 1
• Black gram dhal - 1/2 tsp.
• Bengal gram dhal - 1/2 tsp.

method of preparation

• Cut the vegetable into big cubes.
• Cook with a pinch of salt. (Vegetable should not be cooked too soft.) Drain out the water.
• Heat a little oil in a pan and fry mustard, chillies and dhals and add jaggery.
• When jaggery melts, add the vegetable and coconut.
• Mix well. Turn every now and then.
• Keep until the jagerry flavour is lost.
• Add a tsp. of rice flour and remove from the fire after a while.