Payar matyangya Molosyam

This is another delicious simple dish easy to cook and easy to digest food my gradmas master piece

Ingredients:

Payar (legume gram) – ½ small glass

Matyangya (Red pumpkin) – ¼ kg

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Red chilli powder – ¾ teaspoon

Curry leaves – few                           

Coconut oil – 1 teaspoon

Green chilli – 1 or 2

Method:

Pressure cook legume gram for 4 to 5 whistles till nicely cooked. Cut pumpkin into small pieces with turmeric and red chili powder and cook it in water once it start boiling add green chilly slitted. Once cooked add the legume gram.  Add salt cook it. Once done to right consistency switch off add coconut oil and curry leafs. Close the lid. It goes best with plain steamed rice.

Any permutation and combination of pulses with any pumpkin goes well. Eg green gram, white pumpkin and Bengal gram.if pumpkin is not that ripe my grandma used to add a pinch of jagery for little sweetness