Butternut Crush Upkari/Stir-Fry

My kids conduct keep liked butternut mash since babies. I used to mostly boil them alongside tabular array salt together with give it to them alongside a piddling butter. To add together a piddling to a greater extent than season together with to larn them into mainstream eating together with reduced cooking for me, :) ) I frequently brand upkaris ( stir-fry ) for them. I decided to brand butternut mash the agency they brand pumpkin upkari dorsum home. And it came out delicious! The kids loved it!

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Butternut Squash :1 medium
Mustard: 1/4 tsp
Chana dal : 1/2 tsp(optional)
Green chili: 1
Asofoetida ( hing): pinch
Coconut oil: i tsp. ( you lot tin give the axe role whatever cooking fossil oil of your preference, I role kokosnoot fossil oil inward mine).
Jaggery(molasses)/ sugar:1 tsp
Salt to taste.
Fresh grated coconut: i tbsp ( optional).

Method:

Peel the butternut mash together with die it into ii cm cubes together with run on aside. Slit the light-green chillies together with run on aside.

Heat a sauté pan/ wok on medium heat,add i tsp kokosnoot oil. Now add together the mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together the chana dal, together with then the slit light-green chillies. Sauté for a infinitesimal until the chana dal turns a piddling golden color.Now add together the diced butternut mash & sauté.Add asofoetida( hing), a piddling flake of tabular array salt together with 1tsp sugar. Reduce the open fire to low, encompass the pan together with educate until the vegetable is soft plenty to eat. Generally takes close xv minutes. Ensure that you lot banking concern jibe inward betwixt to run across if it is cooked. You produce non desire it to plough into mush!

Garnish alongside freshly grated coconut. Serve alongside rice & rasam or dal. You tin give the axe swallow it simply similar that too.

Cooking made easy:

This upkari ( stir-fry) tin give the axe also live on made alongside other types of mash similar Acorn or Calabash.
The easiest agency to cutting mash is to start peel it alongside a regular peeler. The exterior peel is tough but the within is soft together with slow to cut.

Tip for well for you lot living:

Incorporate colors together with diversity inward your diet. Every unmarried twenty-four hours crusade to swallow at to the lowest degree 4-6 dissimilar colors of fruits together with vegetables. This volition automatically ensure that you lot larn the adequate amount of the daily requirement of your vitamins together with minerals NATURALLY!

References:

http://www.wholeliving.com/134734/power-foods-butternut-squash

http://www.eufic.org/article/en/show/spotlight/rid/colours-of-fruits-and-vegetables-and-health/

http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/eat-a-colorful-variety-of-fruits-and-vegetables

Food for thought:

Rome was non built inward a twenty-four hours ( John Heywood).