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Westbengal · Breakfast

Pumpkin Curry

Traditional 25. Pumpkin Curry recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• 500g pumpkin, cut into 1-inch cubes
• 3 tbsp mustard oil
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida
• 2-3 green chillies, slit
• 1 tbsp ginger, grated fine
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 cup water
• Salt to taste

👩‍🍳 How to make Pumpkin Curry

1. Heat oil (2 mins, high): Mustard oil shimmering, smoking slightly.
2. Temper spices (1 min, high): Add cumin seeds, bay leaf, asafoetida, green chillies.
3. Add ginger (30 secs, medium): Stir in ginger.
4. Add pumpkin (1 min, medium): Add pumpkin cubes, stir to coat with oil.
5. Add spices and water (1 min, high): Dust turmeric, chilli powder. Pour water, bring to boil.
6. Simmer (12 mins, low): Cover, simmer until pumpkin becomes soft and translucent (test with fork—should pierce easily). Gravy should reduce to thick consistency, coating pumpkin.
7. Add sugar (1 min, low): Stir in sugar, simmer 1 min more.

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