Today's recipe is Nagaland's famous chutney Pumpkin Oambal. It is very yummy with sweet and sour taste. I know what you are thinking that why I am posting Nagaland's recipe all of a sudden right?? Let me explain first recently I joined in Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group with the help of Priya Iyer - thephotowali is her site. And Renu Agarwal - Cookwithrenu is her site. And the admin Mayuri Patel - Mayuris-jikoni is her site, thanks for approving my request. In Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group every month they select one state and pair two group members. Both share secret ingredients and others has to guess it later. At the end of the month we have to publish the recipe, so that's the reason today I am posting Nagaland's recipe 😍.
My Nagaland partner is Renu Agarwal, she gave me red chilli and Tamarind and I gave her green chilli and ginger as two secret ingredients. I checked many sites for this recipes, and stopped at Annapurna blog - Poonam Bachhav ji's blog.
A small information about Nagaland - It is a state in North east of India. It is the 16th state of India with 16 different tribes. They eat meat which includes dogs, cats, rats, monkeys, birds etc., consume extremely hot and spicy food, they use Naga king chilli called as bhut jolika which is the hottest chilli pepper. Naga cusine include both vegetable dish and meat dish which is smoked, dried or fermented. Naga's prefer most edible organic leaves, fermented bamboo shoots with fish and pork. (information from wiki)
Coming to recipe, pumpkin Oambal is very tasty with sweet and sour from tamarind and jaggery and we also add raisins which I loved it alot. At first I was scared to taste it. But trust me it is very unique taste, in a glance it felt like Odisha's khata mita chutney which I nd hubby used to love alot in Puri Jagannath temple 😍.
Let's start recipe
Pumpkin Oambal
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 3 people
Category : Chutney's
Recipe Cuisine: Nagaland
Main ingredient: Pumpkin
Author : Aruna SarasChandra
Ingredients
Pumkin - 250 grams
Tamarind - small lemon size
Mustard oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Rasins - 15
Red chilli - 1
Bay leaf - 2
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt as per taste
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Instruction
1) Soak tamarind in hot water.
2) Wash pumpkin and remove it skin and seeds and cut into small pieces.
6) Extract tamarind juice into above Mashed pumpkin.
7) Now mix the above tamarind juice and Mashed pumpkin well.
8) Heat 1 tsp of mustard oil in a pan, then add mustard seeds once it start crackling then add red chilli, bay leaf, raisins one after other and fry it well.
9) Now add pumpkin tamarind mixture to the above and mix it well.
10) Now add grated jaggery/ powdered jaggery to the above.
11) Then add salt and red chilli powder to above
12) Mix the above well and cook it on low flames for 2 to 3 minutes by closing lid.
That's it sweet, sour and tasty Nagaland's pumpkin Oambal is ready to serve. I had this chutney with hot steamed rice. We can also have it with rotis.
Tips
** Adjust tamarind and jaggery according to your taste.
** Rasins give good unique taste to chutney, so d't skip adding it.
** Adjust water quantity according to the quantity of pumpkin you use while boiling.
Also check other chutney's by clicking the link below the pic..
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My Nagaland partner is Renu Agarwal, she gave me red chilli and Tamarind and I gave her green chilli and ginger as two secret ingredients. I checked many sites for this recipes, and stopped at Annapurna blog - Poonam Bachhav ji's blog.
A small information about Nagaland - It is a state in North east of India. It is the 16th state of India with 16 different tribes. They eat meat which includes dogs, cats, rats, monkeys, birds etc., consume extremely hot and spicy food, they use Naga king chilli called as bhut jolika which is the hottest chilli pepper. Naga cusine include both vegetable dish and meat dish which is smoked, dried or fermented. Naga's prefer most edible organic leaves, fermented bamboo shoots with fish and pork. (information from wiki)
Coming to recipe, pumpkin Oambal is very tasty with sweet and sour from tamarind and jaggery and we also add raisins which I loved it alot. At first I was scared to taste it. But trust me it is very unique taste, in a glance it felt like Odisha's khata mita chutney which I nd hubby used to love alot in Puri Jagannath temple 😍.
Let's start recipe
Pumpkin Oambal
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 3 people
Category : Chutney's
Recipe Cuisine: Nagaland
Main ingredient: Pumpkin
Author : Aruna SarasChandra
Ingredients
Pumkin - 250 grams
Tamarind - small lemon size
Mustard oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Rasins - 15
Red chilli - 1
Bay leaf - 2
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt as per taste
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Instruction
1) Soak tamarind in hot water.
2) Wash pumpkin and remove it skin and seeds and cut into small pieces.
3) Take pumpkin pieces in a bowl and add 1 glass of water and cook it on medium flames.
4) Cook till the pumpkin pieces becomes smooth.
5) Take the above cooked pumpkin pieces into bowl and mash it well as shown below.
7) Now mix the above tamarind juice and Mashed pumpkin well.
8) Heat 1 tsp of mustard oil in a pan, then add mustard seeds once it start crackling then add red chilli, bay leaf, raisins one after other and fry it well.
9) Now add pumpkin tamarind mixture to the above and mix it well.
10) Now add grated jaggery/ powdered jaggery to the above.
11) Then add salt and red chilli powder to above
12) Mix the above well and cook it on low flames for 2 to 3 minutes by closing lid.
That's it sweet, sour and tasty Nagaland's pumpkin Oambal is ready to serve. I had this chutney with hot steamed rice. We can also have it with rotis.
Tips
** Adjust tamarind and jaggery according to your taste.
** Rasins give good unique taste to chutney, so d't skip adding it.
** Adjust water quantity according to the quantity of pumpkin you use while boiling.
Also check other chutney's by clicking the link below the pic..
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