Poricha Kuzambu

Ingredients:

• Diced chow- small pieces
• or white pumpkin - 2 cups
• Snake gourd cut into small pieces - 1 cup
• Brinjal cut into small pieces - 1/4 cup
• Raw banana cut into dices - 1/4 cup
• Drumstick - 1 cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• Moong dal or green gram dal - 1/2 cup

For seasoning:

• Coconut oil -3 tbl .sp
• Mustard seeds - 1 sp
• Dry red chili - 1 [ broken into 2 to 3 pieces ]
• Curry leaves - little

Grind together:

• Broken black gram dal - 1 tbl sp [ urad ]
• Red chilies - 4 to 5
• Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Fry the above spices in little oil till it turns into brown in colour, & grind with grated coconut.


Method:

Scrape outer skin & dice the vegetables into 1 inch piece. Cook along with green gram dal or moong dal in just enough water till dal & vegetables becomes soft to touch. Then add grind fresh masala to that along with salt, turmeric powder. Boil for 5 mins till the kuzambu gets ready. Then heat coconut oil in a pan add seasonings & mix with kuzambu. Garnish with curry leaves.Serve with hot steam boiled  rice.