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Stir-fried pumpkin with nigella seeds

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Stir-fried pumpkin with nigella seeds, from the video Makes 3
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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
  • 1–2 tbsp oil
  • 600 g pumpkin
  • 1 tsp nigella seeds (kalonji)
  • ½ whole dry red chilli
Heat oil over medium; when hot lower to low and add the nigella seeds and half a dry red chilli; keep the heat low for whole spices or they burn and turn bitter.
Starting the stir-fried pumpkin
  • ¼ tsp hing (asafoetida)
Add the pumpkin, raise to medium and add the hing; do not salt yet.
  • ½ tsp chilli powder
Add the chilli powder and cover again until the pumpkin starts to turn tender.
  • salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
Add salt and the optional sugar only at the end so the pumpkin does not break into a gloopy mass; do not let it go mushy.
Tempering the dal
Finish on high heat.
Salting the pumpkin last