Pumpkin halwa, yellow pumpkin halwa, kaddu ka halwa

Today's recipe is pumpkin halwa || yellow pumpkin halwa || kaddu ka halwa, it is melt in mouth and very delicious dessert prepared using yellow pumpkin.  It is very easy to prepare in 20 - 30 minutes, we use to have pumpkin regularly in our diet when we are in Khurda, Odisha. Pumpkin halwa is the most loved dessert by my hubby from that time. We can prepare this in many ways, the one i am sharing today is my favorite and always hit at home. Adding mava / kova to this halwa add rich and creamy taste to this halwa. I used full fat milk to prepare khova, condensed milk and brown sugar to make this halwa creamy and tasty. Also we can prepare this halwa by grating or by cutting pumpkin into pieces. I always choose to prepare halwa by grating pumpkin. We can use dry fruits of your choice, i used cashew nuts and almonds. Again here you have choice you can add dry fruits by frying in ghee or you can add grated nuts, today i added grated nuts in halwa.

 Taking this delicious pumpkin halwa to #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group's  #213 theme #LetsCelebrateFall theme . This week theme was suggested by Poonam Bachhav, she blogs at Annapurna. She is a wonderful and talented chef, recently she won "super Chef" cooking competition conducted by Tata Sampann and also got chance to meet  chef "Sanjeev Kapoor" 😍. She suggested us to prepare fall recipes for fall season. Some of the veggies, fruits that we get in this fall season are pumpkin, apples, pomegranate, figs, fennel, winter greens, broccoli, sweet potatoes,  etc.. As per theme we all bloggers planned to prepare fall party recipes, I thought to prepare pumpkin choco chip cake but because of some reasons i ended up with my favorite pumpkin halwa, thanks Poonam for accepting my request.


                 

Let's start our recipe..

                Pumpkin Halwa 

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 2 bowls
Category : Desserts
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : yellow pumpkin 
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients 

Yellow pumpkin - 1/2 kg
Milk - 4 cups
Condensed milk - 1 cup
Brown sugar - 2 tsp
Cardamom / elachi powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 3/4 cup
Cashew nuts - 7
Almonds - 7

Instructions 

1) Boil milk on medium flames till reduces to half. 

2) Peel yellow pumpkin skin and grate it. 

3) Heat a pan with 3tsp of ghee then add grated pumpkin fry it well till it cook well without any raw smell. 

4) Mean while grate cashew nuts and almonds. 

5) Add boiled and reduced milk / mava to the above fried pumpkin mix it well and cook till pumpkin absorbs milk. 

6) Now add condensed milk, brown sugar and elachi powder mix everything well. 

7) Cook the above on low to medium flames till we get thick and creamy consistency by adding remaining ghee. 

8) our yellow pumpkin halwa is ready add grated cashew nuts and almonds. 

Serve pumpkin halwa hot or cooled as per your wish and enjoy this fall with your loved ones😍. 

Tips

** Adjust ghee quantity according to your taste. 

** You can also skip adding milk. 

** instead of condensed milk and brown sugar you can use sugar or jaggery. 

** Instead of grating pumpkin you can cut into pieces.

Also check other desserts by just clicking the link below pic.. 

                           
                         
               
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                     Poha Badam Ladoo

                              

                     Ragi Peanut ladoo            

       Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Rava Ladoo

              Puffed Rice/Maramarala Ladoo

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corn salad || sweet corn salad || veggie sweet corn salad

Sweet corn salad || corn salad || veggie sweet corn salad recipe with step by step pics and tips.  Sweet corn is one of the favorite to kids and almost everyone. Though i love sweet corn a lot did not got chance to cook it as it's not available in my place. We recently transferred to Chennai, now i can purchase many veggies which i missed these days😍.  Today's recipe is veggie sweet corn salad, it is sweet, spicy and tangy in taste. It is the best snack to your kids after coming from school, as it is loaded with lots of veggies and corn. Sweet corn boosts immunity system, improves bones strength and rich in vitamins & minerals. We can add veggies of our choice, today i added onion, tomato, cucumber and carrot with spices and little lemon juice. We can adjust the veggies and spices according to our taste.

 Taking this healthy salad to #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group's  #212th theme #SaladStories . This week theme was suggested by Narmadha she blogs at "Namscorner".  She is very talented chef who loves to record her tried and tasted recipes just like me :) . Check out her space for tasty veg and non vegetarian recipes from different regions, i loved her baking collection they are very yummy and have to learn recipes from that collection. For this week she wanted us to prepare any salads where we can include kosambari, sundal recipes. I thought to prepare this corn salad as i was thinking to post corn recipe from many days.    
                   
Let's start our recipe.... 

                          Veggie Sweet Corn Salad

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 10 minutes
Serves : 4
Category : Salad / Snack
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Sweet Corn 
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Sweet corns - 2
onion - 1
tomato - 1 (small ** check tips)
cucumber - half
carrot - 1(small)
lemon juice - 1/2 tsp(adjust)
salt - as per taste
red chili powder - 1/4 tsp or chili flakes 
roasted cumin/ jeera powder - 1/8 tsp(optional)
pepper powder - 1/8 tsp or a pinch(optional)
coriander leaves - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Remove sweet corn skin and its silk, boil it for 3 whistles in enough water with 1/4 tsp of salt in pressure cooker. You can also boil corn kernels directly by adding water till it becomes smooth. 

2) switch off the flames let it cool, mean while finely chop onion, tomato, cucumber and grate carrot in a bowl.

3) let the corn cobs cool down then remove kernels with your fingers or using knife. Add it to the above and saute everything once.

4) now add salt, red chili, roasted cumin, pepper powder's along with lemon juice, coriander leaves and saute everything well.

That's it sweet, spicy and tangy veggie sweet corn salad is ready to serve.

Tips

** Adding both tomato and lemon juice will make salad tangy, so adjust both accordingly or skip any as per your taste.

** You can use other veggies like capsicum or skip any of above according to availability and your taste.

** You can also skip adding spices like pepper, roasted cumin powder.

** You can add red chili flakes instead of red chili powder.

** You can also add fresh scraped or grated coconut too.

Also check other related recipes by just clicking the link below pic..

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                                                                    Kosambari                                 
                                   

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Momos Chutney, Sikkim Momos Chutney, how to prepare Sikkim's red chili dipping sauce for momos

Hi friends, how are you all ? i am back after short break with hot and fiery "momos chutney" || "Sikkim momos chutney" || "red chili dipping sauce for momos". I tasted veg momos @Bhubaneswar with this hot and spicy momos chutney. I liked chutney more than momos at first, so i tried it in my starting days of cooking. Other than momos we can also have this momos sauce with other snacks like tikki's, chaats and even with dosa's(i liked it 😋).  This chutney tastes very spicy when we have it at restaurants, so we can adjust its spicy taste at home by adding sugar so that kids too will enjoy it. This momos chutney taste spicy, sweet, tangy and pungent. We can prepare this momos chutney in many variations, red chili is the main ingredient to get spicy taste and we can also add sugar to cut down spicy, finely chopped ginger - garlic pieces in middle, for sourness we use vinegar or lemon juice and adding soya sauce adds different Chinese taste to the chutney/sauce. 

  Taking this delectable and mouth melting "Momos Chutney" to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri she blogs at Mayuris jikoni.  Here admins will select one Indian state in alphabetical order. And they pick pairs for theme, pairs will share 2 ingredients, using that ingredients we will prepare recipe and post it in group album. Other group members will guess the secret ingredient.          
                                                                                                                                         

 For August month we bloggers posting Sikkim recipes. Sikkim is a state in northeastern India, it is smallest state after Goa. Momos is very popular Nepalese treat in Sikkim, thupka, seal roti, gundruk is some of the popular dishes in Sikkim(information from wiki).  For this Sikkim cuisine  i am paired with Priya Iyer, she blogs at "https://thephotowali.wordpress.com", do visit her space for super delicious, very tasty recipes from different regions. I love her writing, photography a lot and always tries to adopt it. she is the person who helped me to join in this talented group :). Priya is multi talented, very talented chef, content writer, editor, she write reviews and she love photography and travelling. I gave peanuts and garlic as 2 secret ingredients, with that she prepared very tasty "Momos Achar || Peanuts chutney" for momos.  In return Priya gave me soya sauce and lemon juice with that i prepared this spicy and tasty "momos chutney".  Adding these 2 ingredients gave lipsmacking taste to momos chutney. Let's start recipe...

                                  Momos Chutney


Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time : 15  minutes
Serves : 4 people 
Category : Chutney /Sauce, Regional
Recipe Cuisine: Sikkim
Main ingredient: Red chili

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

tomatoes - 3
water - 2 glasses
red chili -5
oil - 1 tsp
ginger pieces - 1 tsp
garlic - 4
soya sauce - 1 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tsp
sugar - a pinch(optional i did not added)
salt - as per taste

Instructions

1) Wash tomatoes and slightly cut the skin using knife as shown below. 

2) Add 2 glasses of water in a pan/kadai add red chilies and tomatoes boil it for 5 minutes or till tomatoes starts peeling its chutney.

3) Removes above tomatoes and red chili out from water let it cool  then peel tomatoes skin and grind it fine paste.

4) Heat a pan with 1 tsp of oil add finely chopped ginger garlic pieces fry till it changes color then add soya sauce fry it on low flames without burning.

5) Now add tomato chili paste to the above add salt and fry it well then add lemon juice or vinegar to the above and mix everything well.

That's it super spicy, hot and fiery momos chutney is ready😋 to serve with momos. Store it in air tight container and enoy it.

Tips

** Add a pinch of sugar to cut down spicy or when serving kids.

** Adjust red chillies according to your taste.

** Add salt carefully as soya sauce contains salt.

** Instead of lemon juice you can also add vinegar.

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ChuukkaKura/ Khatti palak chutney

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Ridge gourd chutney

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   Raw Mango Moong dal chutney

             Pudina coconut chutney

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