Working on a guest post, is always a hassle for me. I don’t know why, it kinds of hits my confidence to a certain level. When you work on your own blog, you don’t have anybody to please but when it’s a guest post, you have to ensure that the host is happy, isn’t it? My host for the day, Princy of Spicy Foood asked me for a guest post, and I literally gasped, “me?” Seriously, I am so bad at preparing vegetarian fare especially that needs to be served with rice. It’s
very rarely that my curries turn out well and I have blogged about it. Otherwise, I take quite time to reach the exact taste that my umma tries to bring. Since Princy asked, I quickly pulled out my drafts and lunged through it to see if there was any sadhya vegetarian fare that I could give. I emailed her whether the recipe for today would be fine, and she replied back saying she would take anything from me! So sweet of her… 🙂
very rarely that my curries turn out well and I have blogged about it. Otherwise, I take quite time to reach the exact taste that my umma tries to bring. Since Princy asked, I quickly pulled out my drafts and lunged through it to see if there was any sadhya vegetarian fare that I could give. I emailed her whether the recipe for today would be fine, and she replied back saying she would take anything from me! So sweet of her… 🙂
So there I went ahead and gave her this simple yet delicious Mathanum Payarum that my umma makes. I completely go head over heels for this – don’t need rice or anything else with this! To see the recipe, please do hop on to Princy’s space here… Hope you all will like it… 🙂
Updated on March 31, 2017 with new pictures… Old picture is below… 🙂
Mathanum Payarum (Cowpea Beans with Pumpkin) - My 8th guest post for Spicy Foood
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1 cup red cowpea beans soaked in water overnight
- 500 gm pumpkin peeled and chopped into large pieces
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- ¾ tsp chilli powder increase for spiciness
- Salt to taste
- For grinding:
- ¼ cup grated coconut
- 2 shallots peeled
- 2 cloves garlic
- ½ tsp fennel seeds
- ¼ tsp cumin seeds
- 2 green chillis
- For tempering:
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- ¼ tsp mustard seeds
Instructions
- Wash the cowpea beans well and place into a pressure cooker.
- Add the chopped pumpkin, pour water just till leveled, not too much. Add in the turmeric and red chilli powder along with salt.
- Pressure cook for three whistles and then leave it on simmer for around 30 minutes. Switch off and allow the pressure to go by itself.
- Meanwhile, grind all the “for grinding” ingredients till smooth.
- Open the cooker lid, add in the ground ingredients and mix well. You will see that the pumpkin is all mashed up and coated over the cow pea beans.
- Cook on low flame till just warm.
- Heat up the oil in a little saucepan and splutter the mustard seeds. Pour it into mathanum payarum and mix well.
- Serve as side for rice and any curry! I love to eat it as is…
Never tasted this before .. new to me .
thank u so much shobha…
Just went to Princy's place and came back u are all set for Onam right!:)
Yummy looking dish we call it mathanum payarum eriserry.
normally we don't make sadyas for onam… maybe get a pack from a restaurant and have it… maybe once i want to go through it just to know the feel maybe… 🙂 thanks a lot dear… and erissery is new, i told umma that what u cook is called erissery and she was kind of surprised… hehe…
healthy n luks yummy too.
thank u so much usha…
Mathanum payarum adipoli, princy siteleku pokunnudu. adipoli erissery.
thank u so much swathi…
very delicious eriserry dear 🙂 tempting me !! now going to visit princy's place!!
thank u so much manjula… 🙂
delicious sidedish!
thank u so much sangeetha…
this looks so delicious..no wonder she loved the post!
thank u so much amila…
Our very own erissery…
thank u so much priya… i never knew this was called erissery… 🙂
This sounds interesting, heading over to check it out!
P.S. Thank you so much for your kind words on my guest post at Razina's space 🙂
thank u so much ambreen… my pleasure, dear… 🙂
Thank you for the quick response Raf!Yr such a darling.Love the dish.
thank u so much princy… 🙂
very nice and tasty recipe.. Love it
thank u so much veena…
This looks soo yummy and healthy Rafee.. Off to Princy's space for the recipe 🙂
thank u so much nilu… 🙂
Such an interesting combo, am sure this dish is a winner..Heading to Princy's space.
thank u so much akka…
So interesting and an important item for sadhya…..very tempting dear…..
thank u so much remya…
healthy, protein packed dish..looks good
thank u so much gayathri…
Looks wonderful ! new to me though 🙂 off to Princy's space
thank u so much reni… 🙂
The click is too yummy to resist Rafee..Loved this one..Drooling.
thank u so much dhyuthi…
I am a fan of this mathan & payar erissery.. Enikkum rice venda ethinte koode.. Will eat them just like that.. That one looks perfect & mouth watering to me 🙂
thank u so much chitra… 🙂