Swarnalata Patel
2 min readJul 21, 2021

Pumpkin Leaves da Saag Recipe

Input Ingredients:

Main ingredients: Freshly pickup pumpkin leaves, flowers, a small pumpkin piece

Spices: Garlic, Mustard, cumin seeds, chilly, fresh coriander leaves for garnishing

Special ingredient: Hendua (made of baby bamboo — local Orissa delicacy)

Preparation time: 4 mins

Cooking time: 7 mins

Process:

1. Chop the fresh pumpkin leaves, flowers and pumpkin into small pieces. I used the ingredients from my terrace kitchen garden for best flavor. Chop the garlic, chilies, coriander leaves.

2. Heat a pan.

3. Put a tablespoon of cooking oil on heated pan.

4. Put mustard, cumin seeds, wait to splutter and then add chopped garlic, chilies. Wait for half a minute.

5. Add hendua. Give it a good stern. Cook for a minute.

6. Once the hendua gives good smell, add the chopped vegetables (pumpkin leaves, flowers, pumpkin).

7. Cover it and cook for 5 minutes. Occasionally, give it a good stern.

8. Enjoy it as a side dish with rice, chapati.

Output:

Scrumptious pumpkin leaves da saag, which is full of nutrition, immunity booster and at the same time tasty too.

Pumpkin Leaves, Flowers and Raw Pumpkin Pieces Ready to be Cooked
Hendua, Chilly and Garlic cloves for enhancing flavor of pumpkin leaves
Cooked Pumpkin Leaves

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