Mathan is a very tasty vegetable. You can make many different dishes with mathan. In south we use mathan for making mathan poduthuval, mathan ericheri, in aviyal, mathan bajji, mathan chena/yam curry. The mathan seeds are very delicious when roasted with little salt in micro wave or on top of heated dosa tawa. In olden days we used to get mathan which is ripe and the seeds are ready for roasting. But now a days farmers pluck the mathan fairly young.
In European cuisine I have seen quite a number of dishes like Pumpkin pie, Pumpkin pan cake, Pumpkin cake, Pumpkin soup. The list is endless.
Today I will share with you Mathan ericheri. Its a side dish for rice.
Ingredients
Mathan/Yellow Pumpkin - 1/2 kg
Tuvar dal - 1/2 cup (pressure cooked)
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
urad dal - 1/2 tsp
red chilli - 1 (broken)
curry leaves - a few
hing - 1/4 tsp
salt as required
Method of Preparation
* Wash peel, deseed and cut mathan into large cubes.
* Pressure cook tuvar dal in a cup of water. Keep aside
*In a pan pour coconut oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilli, hing and curry leaves Once mustard crackle add grated coconut and roast till golden brown in medium flame.
*In an earthen pot/Kalchatti add water mathan cubes and salt. Cook till tender. Now add cooked tuvar dal. Garnish with roasted coconut. Serve as a side dish with freshly cooked rice.
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