DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Kumro vate
Priyanka’s selected Kumro Vate follows her Kumro Bhaate recipe: ripe pumpkin pressure-cooked and mashed with green chilli, salt and mustard oil.
About Kumro vate
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Priyanka’s Kumro Bhaate is the selected Bengali pumpkin mash for this entry. Her side dish cooks ripe pumpkin until soft, then combines it with green chilli, salt and mustard oil.
The pumpkin’s seeds, stringy centre and peel are removed. The remaining pumpkin is washed and cut into slices.
The slices go into a pressure cooker with water, a pinch of salt and a drizzle of mustard oil. A lid is placed on the cooker, and the pumpkin cooks until completely soft.
The same cooked pumpkin is taken out onto a plate. Finely chopped green chilli and more salt are added before everything is mashed together, followed by another drizzle of the same mustard oil.
The creator describes this mash as a beginning-of-lunch preparation served with rice. Her simple parboiled rice is the selected accompaniment.
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