Recipes from my mother's recipe book - 1 - Eri Sheri

I found this in my mother's handwritten recipe book - and this followed a couple of pasta recipes, and I somehow always thought it was a continental dish - till I discovered recently that it was very Indian and a very famous dish of Kerala.

Ingredients -

Yellow Pumpkin - 2 cups of small cubes

Curd ( yoghurt) -  1/2 cup - well beaten

Grind to fine paste -

Mustard seeds - 2 tsp

Coconut - 1/2

Red Chillie powder - 2 tsp ( or to taste)

For seasoning -

Oil - 1 tsp

Black gram dal ( urad dal) - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Add sufficient water and salt to the yellow pumpkin and cook till half done.

Add the ground paste and cook further till just tender ( this should not take too much time)

Add the beaten curd.  ( after this the dish is not placed back on the stove)

Season.

Eat with hot rice.  It tastes good with rotis too ( which I am sure is not the usual combination).  I am told ash gourd ( white pumpkin) is also a good vegetable to make this with.  Simple to make and good to eat.