Pumpkin Sweet

From my sister Karpagam.

Ingredients
½ Kg Pumpkin
1 cup sugar
1 pinch sunambu (In Tamil)

Method 
Cut pumpkin into small pieces. Add Pinch of sunambu in little water and apply it on all pumpkin pieces and leave it aside for 5 mins.
Poke the pumpkin using fork and then wash pumpkin pieces thoroughly to remove sunambu.
Heat ½ cup water and add the sugar. Bring to a boil. Add the pumpkin pieces to the boiling sugar syrup. Cook pumpkin in high flame for 15 mins.Allow it to cool and remove pumpkin pieces from the syrup. Add dry fruits and enjoy the tasty Pumpkin sweet.

Pumpkin Sambar

From my sister Karpagam.

Ingredients
1/2 cup toor dal cooked
2 tsp oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
Asaofoetida
1 onion
2 tomatoes
1 cup White pumpkin
1 tsp chilli powder
Turmeric powder – little
1 tsp Sambar powder
1 small lemon size tamarind
Salt to taste
Curry and coriander leaves

Method
Pressure cook the toor dal and keep aside.

Heat oil and season with mustard seeds and add asaofoetida, Add Onion and sauté until onion is cooked. Next add tomatoes and pumpkin. Add salt / chilli powder and turmeric powder and fry for few mins then add 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Once pumpkin is cooked add cooked toor dal to it and allow it to boil for few mins .Now add tamarind juice extract and sambar powder and boil for 5 mins and finally add curry leaves and coriander leaves.