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White Pumpkin Raitha / Vellai Poosanikkai Pachadi

Ingredients:

White Pumpkin (peel off the skin and remove the seeds in the centre part and cut into small cubes or rectangles) – 1 cup
Curd – 1 cup
Onion – 1 (finely chopped)
Green Chillies – 2
Coriander Leaves (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds – 2 tsp
Oil – 1 tbsp
Salt – to taste

Cooking Instructions:



Add chopped pumpkin cubes, 2 pinches of salt and a cup of water in pressure cooker and close the lid. Let it to cook in a high flame for 2 whistles. Wait until the pressure escapes from the cooker and open the lid and drain the excess water completely and let it cool well for 5 to 10 minutes. Once it is cool, squeeze the cooked pumpkins gently and remove the excess water in the vegetable. Add this in a cup of curd. Add required amount of salt and chopped onions in the curd and mix well.



Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard seeds and green chillies and transfer this in the curd. Garnish the raitha with chopped coriander leaves. The taste of this pumpkin raitha will be really yummy.

Side Dish: It goes well with chapatis and hot rice

Comments

raaji said…
you have a lot of patince to try new thing daily.nice to know new recipes
Srikitchen said…
i dont have much patience as u said but will cook something for lunch and will not fail to post it!
CurryLeaf said…
Goes well with rice.Thanks for the recipe
Srikitchen said…
yes u r right curry leaf!
karuna said…
chicken event looks good. i will try and send some yummy recipe in. actually my hubby is a veg, so dont tend to cook much at home, but now i will, for the event will be the excuse. yummmyyy
Deepthi Shankar said…
i havent had raita made of white pumpkin .. lovely entry
Laavanya said…
That looks like a great pachadi for the summer...
Raks said…
I would like to hav with rice!Has come out perfect!
I am pure vegetarian so i am sorry I couldnot take part in your chicken event:)
Srikitchen said…
thanks raks kitchen and see u in the next event!

ya u r right laavanya and its healthy to take pachadis dring summer!

make a try and tell me how it comes out vegetable platter!

thank u so much karuna!
Indian Khana said…
I never had this pachadi...looks gud..
Srikitchen said…
thank u so much priti!
Vani said…
The raitha looks good. Never had pumpkin raitha before though. It must be delicious!
Sunshinemom said…
Good dish! Should go well with rotis and rice!
ST said…
There is small treat for u at my blog:)

I never had this pachadi...looks gud..
Srikitchen said…
the taste will be really superb vani!

thanks sireesha!

thanks sunshinemom!
Illatharasi said…
Never had this.... but looks too tempting:) will try soon!
Sum Raj said…
fabulous pachadi...that looks gud...
Srikitchen said…
thank u vani and suma!
I love white pumkins, when I see this cant imagine biriyani and pachadi... luks mmmmm.

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