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Erissery
Vathal Kuzhambu

Cuisine Style Kerala | Cooking Time 30 minutes
To Serve 4 | Take with Rice or Roti
Type Lunch

Ingredients

Pumpkin (yellow) sliced into pieces - 2 cups
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds a pinch
Coconut - 1/2
Pepper - 4 nos
Coconut oil - 1 tbs
Salt to taste
Curry leaves

Preparation

  • Peel off pumpkin and slice into pieces and boil till soft.
  • Grate coconut and keep 1/4 aside.
  • Fry 1/4 th of of the grated coconut till brown.
  • Grind 3/4 th of grated coconut with cumin seed and pepper to fine paste.
  • Take this ground paste in a pan and heat it.
  • Add turmeric powder and mix well.
  • Put boiled pumpkin in this mixture.
  • Boil in lower flame until raw smell goes off.
  • Adjust gravy with water.
  • Now add the fried coconut.
  • Take out of the flame and keep it aside.
  • Heat coconut oil in other pan and put mustard seed. Let it splutter.
  • Put curry leaves.
  • Mix erissery with seasoning.
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.

Note

You can use Yam instead of pumpkin.

Tips

You can use coconut milk instead of water.


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