Sri Lanka Wattakka (Curried Pumpkin)

Recipe Ingredients

450		Pumpkin
25		Onion
2		Chile - fresh
4		Garlic cloves
50		Oil
		Curry leaf sprigs
1 teaspoon	5ml	Salt
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Pepper - black
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Turmeric
350		Coconut milk - thin
100		Coconut
25		Rice - ground
1 teaspoon	5ml	Mustard seed - ground
1		Curry powder
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Lime juice

Recipe Instructions

Wash the pumpkin and cut the top quarter off. Scoop out the flesh to within 2 cm of sides and cube. Put the shell on one side for using later. Slice the onion and chile and crush the garlic. Heat the oil and fry the onion and chile together with the curry leaves. When the onion is soft add the pumpkin, salt, pepper, turmeric and thin coconut milk and cook until the pumpkin is' done.

Pour the Coconut milk, thick onto the ground rice, mustard and garlic and add to the pumpkin mixture, stirring as it thickens. Bring to the boil and simmer for a few minutes. Remove from heat and spoon into pump- kin shell. Sprinkle with the curry powder and lime juice.

Source:
A taste of Sri Lanka" By Indra Jayasekera

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