Pumpkin (Kaddu)
Sweet sun in the sea of spices! Hokuhoku flesh wrapped in the spicy taste of curry
Description
Indian pumpkins feature high moisture and light sweetness. Grants natural sweetness and thickness to spicy curries, balancing the taste.
Classification: For Families,Vegetable,Sweetness,Diet
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How to use
Ingredients
- Pumpkin
Instructions
- Cut pumpkin with skin (or peeled) into large cubes.
- Toss into South Indian Sambar (bean/veg soup) with daikon/eggplants, simmering until softly crumbling dissolving natural sweetness into the soup.
- Fry in oil tempered with mustard seeds/fenugreek into sweet-sour 'Kaddu Ki Sabzi (Spiced pumpkin stir-fry)'.
Learn more Substitutes, pairings, tips
Key spices
None
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Sweet potatoes (as a sub for fluffiness and strong sweetness)
Pairing
Sambar, Kaddu Ki Sabzi, Puri (Fried bread)
Trivia
[Trend] 'Kaddu' in Hindi. Not as sweet/fluffy as Japanese pumpkin (Kabocha squash), so basically treated as 'a type of veg' in Indian cooking, flavored firmly with other spices and acidity (Amchoor etc.).
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Wrap spicy pumpkin stir-fry flavored with intense mustard oil aroma and fenugreek bitterness in piping hot fried bread (Puri), biting sweet-spicily!
Allergen
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