YELLOW PUMPKIN AVIAL

INGREDIENTS:

Yellow pumpkin - 1lb

Onion - 1big

Tomato -2

Sambar Podi - 1tbsp

Tamarind -Lemon size

Salt - to taste

For Seasoning:

Mustard, Urad dal and cumin seeds -1tbsp

Oil - 3tbsp

Jaggery - 1tbsp

Asfetodia(hing) -1tsp

METHOD:

1.Cut pumpkin into 2 inch pieces.

2.Then chop onion and tomatoes. Soak tamarind in 1 cup of water.

3.In a pan put some oil when the oil heasts add all the seasoning ingredients.

4. When the mustard splutters add onion and tomato to it and fry them and after sometime

add pumpkin to it and fry it.

5.Once the pumpkin is fried little add sambar podi and put 1/2 cup of water and let it boil for 3 to 4 mins.

6.When the pumpkin is half way cooked add salt and tamarind water to it.

7. Once the pumpkin is cooked add jaggery to it and bring it down.

This is a Chettinad Dish.