Sri Lankan Cuisine

Pumpkin curry (wattakka kalu pol)

Cuisine: Sri Lankan Servings: Serves 8 - 10 Created by Sunil Ranasinghe

A simple but delicious vegetable curry using the dark roasted Sri Lankan curry powder, finished with roasted desiccated coconut and rice.

Ingredients

1 kg pumpkin
2 tbsp Sri Lankan roasted curry powder
2 medium red onions, finely sliced
3 green chillies, sliced
4 cloves garlic, finely sliced
½ tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp ground mustard
2 cups coconut milk
2 sprigs fresh curry leaves
1-2 tsp salt
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Thickening
2 tbsp rice, roasted and ground
4 tbsp desiccated coconut, roasted

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Preparation

Wash and cut pumpkin into cubes, leaving skin on.

Heat oil and fry onions, curry leaves, garlic and green chillies in a large pot.

Add mustard seeds.

In a bowl, mix all the other ingredients with pumpkin and add to the pot along with coconut milk. Continue to cook over high heat until pumpkin is tender.

Meanwhile, in a pan, dry toast short grain rice and coconut until brown & fragrant. Then blend into a powder.

Add the ground roasted rice and desiccated coconut to thicken and flavour the curry a few minutes before cooking is complete.

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07 Aug 2010 06:45 AEST

Ash

Sydney

quite right

I'd get upset if I ordered paella & received pumpkin curry - Sri Lankan or not. On the other hand - it's a GREAT curry.

14 Jul 2010 12:07 AEST

Don

NSW

Cracy arrogant Alicia

I think Alicia is cracy, she has stepped in her tail. Why she worried about some Paella that nobody mentioned in this recipe.

05 Jun 2010 04:10 AEST

Andrew

Geelong

Alicia commented on the wrong recipie

I think Alicia has commented on the wrong recipie. This is obviosuly not a recipie for paella !

01 Apr 2010 07:20 AEST

Willoughby

Delicious!

Great recipe. Sensational and easy to cook even on a working day. Everybody LOVED it! Thanks!

16 Mar 2010 11:08 AEST

Asanga

Parramatta

this is traditional

this is very traditional way of cooking pumpkin curry in Sri Lanka. We also cook pork curry in similar style and its called black pork curry (pork kalu pol)

15 Apr 2009 04:22 AEST

Alan

Donvale

Intense flavours

This is a taste sensation ... just be careful not to overcook the pumpkin.

21 Jan 2009 10:07 AEST

moaksha

reservoir

This is a great recipe

I tried and it's a great one.as per the previous comment, this is a SRI LANKAN food but not a spanish food.these food are for the sri lankans as well as for the people around the world who are prefer the taste of sri lankan curries.If some one dosen't like they can stop eating rather than critizicing it.

07 Dec 2008 05:58 AEST

Alicia

Perth

This is not at all an original Paella

I'd hate to be served such thing. For those that don't know what to expect, this will be a sexy eadible dish. But for those that had the chance to eat "real good" Paella in Spain they'll be quite offended. This is the recipe of a "practical" pseudo-Paella in-a-hurry, and I suppose it'll work well in Australia. A "real good" Paella can easily take 2 hours so that subtle flavours mix together with love. Never use overpowering shorcuts like garlic (or chorizo). This is cheating. Don't be mistaken.

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