Olan / Pumpkins with Cream of Coconut

March 12, 2016

Any feast in Kerala is incomplete without this side dish. Olan is a mandatory dish of Kerala cuisine made with Raw Pumpkin or Ash gourd. The veggies boiled in coconut milk tastes yummy, soft and very mild with the flavours of coconut oil and green chillies. Since the legume is added with pumpkin no doubt it is a healthy and rich side dish to be served during festivals.

Raw pumpkin
(not yellowish pumpkin, it must be greenish yellow) – ½ kg

Red cow peas/ Thatta payaru / Karamani
(soaked overnight and boiled) – 2 table spoons
Slitted green chillies – 4 to 5

Coconut milk – 1 cup first milk / thick milk

Coconut milk - Thin milk / diluted milk 3 cups

Coconut oil – 2 tea spoons

Curry leaves

Cut the pumpkin into thin square pieces after peeling off the skin. Soak the peas overnight, boil it in pressure cooker and keep aside. Boil the pumpkin pieces with thin coconut milk and slitted green...
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