Pumpkin chutney recipe | How to make sihi gumbala chutney | Cheenikai chutney | Sihi kumbalakai chutney | Kaddu chutney
By Latha on October 11th, 2017
Pumpkin chutney or sihi kumbalakai chutney recipe explained with step by step pictures. This pumpkin or cheenikai chutney is prepared using cooked pumpkin, coconut, red chili, sesame seeds and roasted gram. Serve this tasty and healthy chutney with either rice or dosa.
If you are looking for more sihi kumabalakai or pumpkin recipes then check our pumpkin sweet idli, pumpkin sambar and pumpkin stir fry recipes. I have used roasted gram or fried gram in this recipe. But if you don't like the roasted gram taste then you can use gram dal or chana dal. In that case roast the gram dal along with red chili and sesame seeds.
Pumpkin is familiar by name cheenikai or sihi kumbalakai in Kannada language. You can read pumpkin health benefits and names in different languages using this post.
If you are looking for more chutney recipes then do check curry leaves chutney, Urad dal chutney, Cucumber peel chutney, doddapatre chutney, watermelon-rind chutney, garlic chutney, coriander leaves chutney, ridgegourd peel chutney, brahmi chutney and radish chutney.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 kg pumpkin or sihi kumbalakai
- 2 - 4 red chilies
- 1 tsp ellu or sesame seeds or til
- 2 tbsp roasted gram or gram dal
- small marble sized tamarind
- 1/2 tsp jaggery
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- Salt as per your taste.
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp urad dal
- few curry leaves
- 2 tsp cooking oil
Instructions for making pumpkin or sihi kumbalakai chutney:
- Wash, peel and chop the pumpkin.
- Transfer it into a cooker. Add in salt, jaggery, tamarind and little water. Cook until pumpkin is soft. I cookd by making 1 whistle.
- Meanwhile in a frying pan dry roast red chilies and sesame seeds. If you are using gram dal (kadlebele) then roast that as well. I used roasted gram (hurigadale).
- Wait until cooked pumpkin is cool and then grind it along with coconut, fried ingredients and roasted gram (if not using gram dal)
- Transfer it into a bowl. Temper it with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and urad dal. Serve it with rice or dosa.
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