Pumpkin Pachadi Recipe with step by step pictures. This Poosanikai Pachadi Recipe is a very common dish made with coconut and yogurt. This little sweet and sour curry will make a delicious accompaniment with rice.

Pumpkin Pachadi Recipe

Amma makes this often whenever she prepares a complete South Indian meal. Pachadi is a important dish in that meal. She makes pachadi with lots of veg, i have posted most of them here. You can check out all my pachadi recipes here.. This recipe is kind of different one, it has raw sour mangoes for tartness and the touch of sugar gives a lovely sweetness to this pachadi. So try this out and let me know how it turns out..

Ingredients for Pumpkin Pachadi Recipe (poosanikai pachadi recipe)

Pumpkin - 2 cups finely chopped
Raw Sour Mangoes - 4 tbsp chopped finely
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1 tsp
Water - 1 cup

For Paste:

Coconut - ¾ cup
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - ½ tsp
Green Chilli - 1
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi - ½ tsp

For Tempering:

Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 sprig

How to Make Pumpkin Pachadi Recipe (poosanikai pachadi recipe)

Take grinding ingredients in a mixer. Add some water and make into a smooth paste.
Take pumpkin and mango in a kadai. Add in water, salt and cook for 10 mins till the veggies is done.
Now add in sugar, ground masala and mix well.
Cook for 5 mins till is done. Remove it to a serving bowl.
Heat oil, add in mustard seeds and curry leaves and let it sizzle for a min.
Pour this over the pachadi and mix well.
Serve.

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