Pumpkin, coconut and rice stew with chicken and kale meatballs, from a mystery-ingredient challenge

Challenge format: take all but one item from the first container, one item from the second, and optionally trade blind for the third; anything else in the kitchen may also be used.

Saute in ghee and cook the rice; add water when it starts to catch.

Cut the tamarind candy into strips and add to the pot.

Cut the unpeeled ginger.

Add the pumpkin puree.

Mix the ground chicken and chopped kale into little meatballs to cook inside the stew; no breadcrumbs, so short of binder.

Grind coriander in a blade grinder and add it.

Simmer the stew, stirring, then cook the meatballs, flip them, and stir them into the stew when they come apart.

Add more tamarind candy and cook until the chicken is cooked through.

Serve in bowls.