A recipe
Whenever the season of pumpkins comes, I can't resist without cooking sweet n sour pumpkin. I enjoy the taste and hope you will enjoy it too.
Ingredients
Pumpkin: 500g
onion: two regular size
garlic: five petals, regular size
Tamarind/imlee: two tablespoon full
sugar: two teaspoon full
salt: half teaspoon or to the taste
cooking oil
Cooking equipment: a pressure cooking pan, a bowl, a spatula, a cooking stove
peel off the hard outer of pumpkin
chop it into small pieces
peel off the garlic covers
peel off onion covers
chop onion into small pieces
soak tamarind in a bowl filled with about 200 ml water
heat three tablespoons of cooking oil in the frying pan
add garlic to it
fry till it goes brown
now add onion to it and let it go brown by frying
now add chopped pumpkin pieces into this cooking pan
add salt as well as sugar along
Cover with the lid and let the pressure come
on the other hand, mince the tamarind into water in which it was soaked
now filter out the seeds and fibres and collect the fluid with tamarind
cook the material in pressure pan for about 20 minutes
let it cool and then open it up
now add tamarind fluid to it and mix well
cook in open for five minutes
taste it.....I think you are going to like the sweet n sour taste
(Note: some chilly can be added if you like the taste of it)