Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
For the flavouring I added pachfuran (a. Healthy Spinach Stir fry or Spinach Thoran which is made without coconut and is tossed with breadcrumbs which gives nice sweet taste to the thoran. Normally we use coconut for making thoran.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut:
- Prepare 2 cups red Pumpkin or Butternut Squash (cut in small cubes)
- Get 1 bunch Spinach(can be use other variety of leafy veg/saag)
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Panchfuran (bengali mix whole spice)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon freshly grated coconut or desiccated coconut)
- Take 1/4 th teaspoon Jaggery powder or graterd Jaggery
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Chilli flakes
- Take 2 tablespoon Mustard oil/ Vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 dry red Chillies
- Prepare 4-5 Curry leaves
- Take to taste Salt
Watch the video on how to make it. A beef resource card and the recipe can be downloaded here. Add in cabbage and mix well. Add in spinach and mix well.
Steps to make Stir fried pumpkin with spinach and coconut:
- Take 1 bunch of washed, rinsed and clean spinach leaves. Discard the big stems.
- I blanced them in boiling water for 30 seconds, tranfered to a colander and rinse them in cold water. This will help to remove any jerms from the leaves and also help to retain it's bright colour.
- Now with a sharp knife chop them. Keep aside.
- Also peel and cut the pumpkin or squash in small pieces.
- Heat 2 tablespoon of oil in a pan and temper with paachfuran & dry red chillies. Paachfuran is a mixture of 5(paach)whole spices like fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds, carrom seeds, fennel seeds and nigela seeds.
- Also add in curry leaves and the pumpkin pieces. Add in salt stir well and cook with lid on in medium heat for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes or when the pumpkin cooks 70%, add in the chopped spinach and mix. Cover and again cook in medium low heat for another 10 minutes.
- Now add in grated coconut, I added dessicated coconut as I don't have fresh one right now.
- Also add in Jaggery powder or grated Jaggery & chilli flakes. Give a final stir and your stir fried pumpkin with spinach is ready to serve. Goes well with steam rice or roti/fulka.
It will wilt as soon as it hits the pan. Cover the pan with a lid. Now add in all spice powders and mix well. Add the coconut milk and chickpeas. Season with a teaspoon of cumin and fry for a few minutes in a frying pan with a little oil.
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