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Pumpkin Recipe

Indications

  • Pumpkin is best among the fruits of creepers
  • It is slightly hot in potency
  • It is Alkaline
  • It is an Appetizer
  • Cleanses the urinary bladder
  • Pacifies all doshas
  • It is good for heart
  • It is pathya (wholesome diet)
  • Good for mental disorders

It relieves the following-

  • Pitta diseases
  • Difficulty in urination
  • Poisoning
  • Deep-seated chronic fever
  • Diabetes
  • Prostrate disorders
  • Urinary stones
  • Gives good nourishment to skin
  • Aphrodisiac
  • It is rich in Chlorophyll, minerals, and amino acids, alkaline.
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Sanskrit name: Kooshmanda

Botanical name: Cucurbita maxima

English name: Pumpkin

Tamil name: Poosanikkai

Preparations

Ingredients

  • Pumpkin - 200 gm
  • Buttermilk - 2 cups
  • Coconut - ½
  • Cumin seeds - 1 spoon
  • Rice -1 spoon
  • Turmeric powder - pinch
  • Pepper - 2 spoons
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Method

Remove the skin and seeds and cut the pumpkin into big pieces. Steam it and add to butter milk. Coconut, cumin seeds and pepper are grounded and added to it and boiled for few minutes. Some turmeric is also added.


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Comments

Edsantiago - Jul 28, 2010

Nice information. I will use the recipe in cooking some of my snake gourd harvests. thanks.
ED SANTIAGO, Philippines


Shascam - Jul 18, 2010

Easy, Tasty & Healthy

raj_ns - Apr 12, 2010

Hi, the amount of coconut is not clear in the recipe-the units are missing. is it 1/2 TBS?
otherwise excellent stuff!

Sarahscifi - Feb 01, 2010

It seems like all the flavours are competing with one another - andasafoetida is an aquired taste. I will persevere and eat it because I love beetroot, but I don't think i will make it again, sorry!

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