Ingredients:

• 3 – ripe, medium-sized mangoes (finely chopped)
• 1 cup – Pumpkin (cut into small pieces)
• 7 cups – sour Curd (finely churned)
• 1/2 cup – grated Coconut
• 6 – Green chillies and 1 Red Chilli (broken into 2 pieces)
• 1 tbsp – Mustard Seeds
• 1/2 tbsp – Fenugreek seeds
• 1 tbsp – Cumin seeds
• 1/2 tbsp – Turmeric powder
• 1 tbsp – oil
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. First, cook the pumpkin by adding 2 cups of water and turmeric powder.
2. Then, add the mangoes (you can add seeds, too) and allow it to cook.
3. Grind coconut, green chillies and cumin seeds. Mix this mixture in curd.
4. When mangoes are cooked, add this curd and stir it well.
5. Reduce the heat and cook it for 20 mins.
6. Heat oil in a pan and add fenugreek seeds. Wait till they change colour, then add mustard seed and red chillies.
7. Switch off when they splutter. Add to the kootaan.

Recipe courtesy of Sify Bawarchi