I just recently shifted to Bangalore and thats one of the reasons that I have been away from my blog. Shifting from one town to another in never easy and it will take a while for me to settle down. I have lived in Bangalore before and the best part about this city is the weather. Its so pleasant here compared to Chennai and I love enjoying hot cup of tea or soups. I decided to make some dal shorba and combine it with pumpkin. I have used red lentil to make this soup and used mild spices. The addition of pumpkin adds a light sweetness to this soup. It is a healthy and comforting soup. So, sharing the recipe and hope you try it out and share the feedback with me.
Pumpkin Lentil Soup / Kaddu Dal Shorba
Recipe Type: Soup
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
Flavourful, comforting red lentil soup with a combination of sweetness from pumpkins!
Ingredients
- Masoor Dal / Split Red lentil – 1 cup
- Onion – 1 (finely chopped)
- Pumpkin – 1 cup (chopped)
- Tomatoes – 2 (chopped)
- Garlic cloves – 2 (chopped)
- Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp
- Red Chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
- Garam Masala – 1 tsp
- Vegetable Oil – 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Cilantro/Coriander leaves for garnishing
Instructions
- Heat oil in a frying pan and sauté onions till translucent.
- Stir in garlic, turmeric powder, chilli powder and garam masala.
- Now add chopped pumpkin and tomatoes and stir for 2 minutes.
- Transfer this into a 3 litre pressure cooker along with washed lentil.
- Add 4 cups of water and pressure cook till lentils are nicely cooked. I gave 3 whistles.
- Let it cool down and blend it nicely using blender.
- Heat it in a pan and add salt to taste.
- Serve it hot garnished with coriander leaves.
Notes
I have not added any cream to keep it light and healthy but you can add some cream as per your preference before serving.
Yum
That is a really quick bouncing back! Hope you get settled down soon… Comforting shorba this is…
Thank you Rafeeda 🙂
This is so awesome priya.. makes a perfect winter food
Thank you Kalpana 🙂
Wow that was a quick move! Glad to see you back and with such a beautiful comforting soup.
Thank you Bobbi 🙂