Wattakka

Ingredients

450 g pumpkin
25 g onion
2 chillies
4 garlic
50 ml oil
1 ts salt
1/4 ts black pepper
1/4 ts turmeric
450 ml coconut milk
25 g rice
1 ts mustard
1/2 ts lime juice wash the pumpkin
1/4 off
2 cm of sides

Instructions

the onion and chilli and crush the garlic. Heat the oil and fry the onion and chilli 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 thick coconut milk 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 pumpkin shell. Sprinkle with the curry powder and lime juice. This recipe is from "A taste of Sri Lanka" by Indra Jayasekera. ISBN # 962 224 010 0 Copied by Carla van der Waal