Free Recipe Wattakka (Curried Pumpkin)
Recipe Type: V Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
Cooking Ingredients for Wattakka (Curried Pumpkin) Recipe
450 g Pumpkin
25 g Onion
2 Fresh chillies
4 Cloves garlic
50 ml Oil
-sprig curry leaves
1 ts Salt
1/4 ts Black pepper
1/4 ts Turmeric
350 ml Thin coconut milk
100 ml Thick coconut milk
25 g Ground rice
1 ts Ground mustard
-pinch curry powder
1/2 ts Lime juice
Wattakka (Curried Pumpkin) Preparation
Wash the pumpkin and cut the top quarter off. Scoop out the flesh to within 2 cm of sides and cube. Put the shell on one side for using later. Slice the onion and chilli and crush the garlic. Heat the oil and fry the onion and chilli together with the curry leaves. When the onion is soft add the pumpkin, salt, pepper, turmeric and thin coconut milk and cook until the pumpkin is” done. Pour the thick coconut milk onto the ground rice, mustard and garlic and add to the pumpkin mixture, stirring as it thickens. Bring to the boil and simmer for a few minutes. Remove from heat and spoon into pump- kin shell. Sprinkle with the curry powder and lime juice. This recipe is from A taste of Sri Lanka by Indra Jayasekera. ISBN # 962 224 010 0 Copied by Carla van der Waal
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Recipe Serves: 999
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