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Majjiga Pulusu - Spiced buttermilk stew with white pumpkin.

Apr-19-2017
Affaf Ali
15 minutes
Prep Time
45 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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ABOUT Majjiga Pulusu - Spiced buttermilk stew with white pumpkin. RECIPE

A classic summer dish from one of the South Indian states - AP/ Telengana is a spiced buttermilk stew with white pumpkin. A yogurt based preparation that’s tangy and has very mild rustic flavors. Best team with hot steaming rice. Total Bliss for scorching summers!!!

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Easy
  • Everyday
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Stir fry
  • Whisking
  • Boiling
  • Side Dishes
  • Healthy

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. White Pumpkin cubes– 2 cups
  2. Sour yogurt– 1.5 cups
  3. Water– 3 cups
  4. Besan/ Gram flour– 2 tbspn
  5. Turmeric powder– 1/4 tspn
  6. Salt – according to taste
  7. Grind together:
  8. Green Chilli – 3
  9. Coriander seeds– 1/2 tspn
  10. Grated Coconut– 2 tspn
  11. For Tempering/ Tadka:
  12. Oil– 3 tbspn
  13. Fenugreek seeds/ methi – 1/3 tspn
  14. Mustard seeds– 1/4 tspn
  15. Curry leaves– 2 sprigs
  16. Asafoetida– 2 pinches
  17. Full red chilli– 3

Instructions

  1. Using a mixer grinder, grind green chili, coriander seeds and grated Coconut to fine mixture.
  2. To this add half cup yogurt, besan, turmeric powder and salt. Grind this to smooth mixture. Set aside.
  3. Remove skin of white pumpkin, cut them to cubes. Boil pumpkin in open pot with one glass water for 10 to 12 minutes on medium flame. Drain the water and set aside.
  4. Mix the remaining yogurt to the ground mixture, add water and whisk well to smooth consistency. Check for salt and adjust accordingly. Add the pumpkin cubes. Transfer this to a heavy bottom pan and bring this mixture to boil. Cook on medium flame.
  5. In the meanwhile prepare a vessel for tadka. Once the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, methi seeds, red chilli (broken to 2 pieces each), curry leaves and hing. Fry on low flame till aromatic. Garnish pulusu with tadka.
  6. Serve hot.
  7. Relish with hot steaming rice and fried papad/ vadiyalu.

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