Monday, November 7, 2011

Pumpkin Sweet Thoran





Pumpkins are very versatile in their uses for cooking. Whenever I buy pumpkin my first choice of recipe is this sweet thoran. It is very simple and tasty recipe with coconut and jaggery. Pumpkin is one of the very fastest cooking vegetable but the only time consuming part is cleaning. Apart from this, pumpkin is a good boost for immune system which is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Their seeds also have many health benefits, as they are a good source of protein, zinc, and other vitamins.


Ingredients :

Pumpkin – 1 cup
Jaggery – ½ cup
Grated Coconut – 2 tbsp
Roasted gram powder – 2tbsp
Ghee – 1tbsp


Method:

  • Clean, remove skin and chop the pumpkin into small cubes.
  • Boil water in a pan and add the chopped pumpkin and cook for 5 minutes till soft but no to mushy.
  • Drain the water and spread them in a plate.




  • In a pan and add jaggery with water just to immerse it and when it dissolves strain the jaggery water to avoid sand and again keep the jaggery water in fire and once it starts bubbling add grated coconut and pumpkin and stir for couple of mins.




  • Finally add the roasted gram powder and mix quickly without forming any lumps.
  • Stir on lower flame until all combine well (mix gently) and finally add 1 tbsp of ghee.
  • Remove it from fire and serve it.




Yummy Pumpkin sweet thoran is ready to serve…



Note:

  • Choose Pumpkins that is heavy for its size.
  • Adjust jaggery as per sweet taste.
  • The only challenge is in getting the pumpkin cooked in correct way to be soft and not to mushy or overcooked.



28 comments:

  1. wow healthy thoran,luks yum...

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  2. Slurp,mouthwatering here, quite a new thoran for me..

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  3. Neat and Yumm Pumpkin Toran recipe Dear.Luks delicious too.Luv it

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  4. This looks really good..Mouthwatering dear..Thanks for the recipe .will try soon..

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  5. this sure looks yummy dear, liked the recipe a lot..

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  6. never tried this way...mouth watering thoran...looks delish!!

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  7. Nice Recipe, Looks Great...

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  8. Thats a very new and interesting recipe. Looks delicious.

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  9. my mom makes this during sankaranthi. nicely done and presented

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  10. Looks delicious.......

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  11. Yum ..I would love this with roti/paratha ...nice recipe

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  12. I don't think I've had a sweet thoran before.. very new and interesting.

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  13. love this recipe. thanks for posting

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  14. Delicious pumpkin thoran. Looks really nice.

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  15. Looks superb recipe. I never prepared it but I like the hint of sweet version here.

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  16. Perfect fall recipe ~ very innovative n love the combo of ingredients used!
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  17. Nice thoran.Even my mom also prepares this and we use to have it sambar rice.

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  18. I have a sweet tooth. Would love to make this.

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  19. first time here .... lovely blog .. glad to follow you. very healthy and yummy thoran..visit my blog
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  20. Thanks for stopping by dear.
    Pumpkin Thoran sounds very delicious. Love it.

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