Stuffed Pumpkin
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati Rice / பாசுமதி அரிசி - ¾cooked
- 4 nos Pumpkin, Small
- 2 nos Green Chili, Fresh / பச்சை மிளகாய்
- ½ cup Carrot / காரெட் - chopped
- ½ cup French Beans, Fresh - chopped
- ½ cup Potato / உருளைக் கிழங்கு - chopped
- ½ cup Cauliflower - chopped
- ½ cup Bell Pepper / குடை மிளகாய் - chopped
- ½ cup Green Peas, Fresh / பச்சைப் பட்டாணி
- ½ cup Paneer - chopped
- 1 tsp Red Chili powder / மிளகாய்த் தூள்
- 1 tsp Garam Masala powder
- 1 tsp Cumin seed / சீரகம்
- 2 tsp Salt / உப்பு - adjust to your taste
- 50 gm Butter / வெண்ணெய்
Instructions
- Heat butter in a pan
- Add cumin and allow it to splutter
- Add all the chopped vegetables and sauté them well
- Add salt, red chili powder, garam masala powder and mix and cook well for 2min
- Add paneer and cook for 2min
- Add ¾cooked rice mix well
- Switch off the flame, keep aside
- Cut top of pumpkin a little
- Carve out the flesh and seeds
- Marinate with salt on the inner side of the pumpkin and allow it rest for 10min
- Stuff the pumpkin with the above rice mix
- Cover the pumpkin
- Wrap with aluminium foil
- Pre-heat oven to 220°C
- Bake the pumpkin for 30min
- Unwrap the aluminium foil and bake for another 20min
- Serve hot
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