Pumpkin Dal / Yellow Pumpkin Dal Curry

Hi friends, Hope you all had enjoyed your weekend and wish you all a great week ahead. Today's recipe is very simple and comfort Dal With Yellow Pumpkin. This dal and Pumpkin Poriyal are the only two recipes which i know to cook with Yellow pumpkin. Really this dal goes well with both rice and rotis. Less spicy and tasty dal.

Ingredients

1. Tuvar Dal/Toor Dal    less than 1/4 cup
2. Yellow Pumpkin     1 cup(chopped in to bite size pieces)
3. Onion     1 medium(chopped)
4. Tomato    2 medium(chopped)
5. Green chili     3no.s
6. Garlic       3-4 fat cloves
7. Turmeric powder     1/4 tsp
8. Salt      to taste
9. Hing       a generous pinch

To Temper

1. Oil/ghee     1 tbsp
2. Dry Red chili    3 no.s(broken)
3. Mustard seeds    1/2 tsp
4. Cumin seeds     1/2 tsp
5. Fennel seeds    1/4 tsp
6. Pepper corns    3-4 no.s
7. Curry leaves    1 sprig
8. Onion   1/4 cup(sliced)
9. Sambar Powder     1/2 -1 tsp
10. Cilantro    3-4 sprig(finely chopped)

Method

• Wash and chop pumpkin into bite size pieces with or without skin( i used with skin only) and also chop onion, tomatoes and keep ready.
• In a pressure cooker, add dal,pumpkin,onion,tomato,garlic,green chili,turmeric powder and pressure cook for 2-3 whistles and wait till the pressure cools down.

• After that open the pressure cooker, add enough salt,hing and using spoon( i used Matthu) mash all the veg n dal well.
• Now heat oil/ghee in a tempering pan, add mustard seeds,cumin,fennel,peper corns and wait till it splutter then add red chili,onion,curry leaves,sambar powder and saute for 1-2 minutes n lastly add cilantro and add it to the mashed pumpkin dal.

• That't Pumpkin Dal Curry ready. Serve Hot with Rotis/Rice!