Pumpkin Kootu

Ingredients:
White Pumpkin - 1/2 kg
Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Green chillies - 2 nos
Rice - 1 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Broken Urad dal - 2 tsp
Asafodeita - 1/2 pinch
Salt to taste

Method:
Cut pumpkin into reasonably big cubes. Cook them with 2 pinches of salt. Grind coconut, cumin seeds, green chillies, rice to a fine paste. Add it to the pumpkin and cook till the raw smell goes off.

In a seasoning laddle add oil and when hot add mustard seeds and when they splutter add broken urad dal and asafodeita and pour it on top of pumpkin.

Makes a great side dish

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