Dhuddhiya Kadamb

This  very amchi dish uses ripe yellow pumpkin . Using rice & jaggery – it’s steam cooked into a very tasty & healthy dish .This  can be served as a dessert or evening snack . Recipe for this aromatic dish is as follows

Ingredients- 

• Raw rice – 2 cups
• Pumpkin ( should be ripe & yellow ) – 250 gms
• Jaggery – 1 cup
• Coconut    grated  –  1 cup
• Cardamom – 2

Method – 

1. Soak raw rice for about 2  hours . Grate the pumpkin .
2. Heat the jaggery in 1/4 cup of water enough to just melt it . Filter it to remove impurities .
3. Grind the rice , pumpkin , coconut in a mixer to a coarse batter using the jaggery water . The batter should be thick .
4. Add the crushed cardamom and mix well.
5. Pour the batter in a greased vessel and steam for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
6. When cool de-mould and cut into pieces .