Pumpkin idli/cake (Dudde kaDamb)

(from Nandini’s recipe box)

Categories: Idli

Ingredients

  • Grated pumpkin 1 cup
  • Coconut (fresh or frozen) 1/2 cup
  • Rice rava/sooji (idli rava) 1/2 cup
  • Jaggery 1 tbl spn
  • Cardamom powder 1/4 tea spn
  • Salt
  • Banana/ turmeric leaves
  • Use banana leaves only if the turmeric leaves cannot be found. Turmeric leaves give a great aroma to this dish.

Directions

  1. Mix all the ingredients and leave it for around 30min. The mixture leaves some water. This makes the dish more tasty.

  2. Keep two leaves on a flat board in following manner.

  3. Keep a handful of mixture on the leaves.

  4. Fold tightly the bottom leaves followed by top leaves as shown.

  5. Keep these bundles in a vessel.

  6. Steam in cooker/steamer(without putting whistle) for around 10mins.

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