Pumpkin -Black Eyed Peas Curry

       Pumpkin – Black Eyed Peas Curry 
                   

                                   

Ingredients :

 Black eyed peas/cow peas /karamani – 1 cup

Pumpkin -1/2 piece
onions – 1 cut lengthwise
Garlic  – 10  cloves
sambar powder – 2 ¼ spn

Tamarind paste -1 ½ spn
Salt as required
Oil – 1 tbsp

For tempering:

Vadakam -1/2 spn

Or

Mustard seeds- ½ spn

Cumin seeds- ½ spn

To grind:

Grated coconut – ¼ cup

Sombu – ½ spn

Preparation :

Soak the black eyed peas/karamani overnight or for 5 hours. Pressure cook it for 2 whistles and keep it aside.

Grind coconut along with sombu to a fine paste and keep aside.

Wash , remove the skin and cut pumpkin into small cubes.

Method:
Heat oil in a pan, add tempering items .When it sizzles, add onions and sauté till it turns transparent.

Then add garlic  cloves and sauté for a few more minutes.

Add tamarind juice, sambar  powder and salt . Add enough water.

close it with lid and boil it for until raw smell goes off. Then add cooked black eye peas and pumpkin pieces and simmer for 10 minutes.

Atlast add the grind paste.The consistency of the curry should neither be thick nor thin. So adjust water accordingly.cook it for 5 mins.
                                     

                                       

                                                    

Garnish with curry leaves…Done!