By Krati Purwar
Updated:Feb 22, 2025
ShareHosting a gathering comes with challenges like preparing a menu that will suit everyone’s palate. Why not prepare vegetarian snacks and a lip-smacking non-vegetarian delight for the main course? Check out the recipes.
Pumpkin Cigar Rolls
Chef shared, “Spring rolls are believed to have originated in northern and eastern China, these rolls consisted of a wheat wrapper that initially resembled a pancake. It was filled with fresh vegetables of the first spring harvest to mark the beginning of spring and eventually came to be called a ‘spring roll’. Later then the dish started being made in many forms, pumpkin cigar roll is one of them.”
Ingredients
- 500 grams of pumpkin
- 50 grams of Thai chilli paste
- 50 grams of garlic
- Salt to taste
- 250 grams of cream cheese
- 50 grams of spring onion
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Ingredients
For Gravy
- 150ml mustard oil
- 250 grams of mutton
- 209 grams of onion
- 200 grams of tomato
- 50 grams of hung curd
- 20 grams of whole mix spicy
- 20 grams of ginger garlic paste
For Tadka
- 50 ml of oil
- 10 grams of green chillies
- 20 grams of red chillies
Method
For Marination
- In a bowl, add mutton and ginger-garlic paste. Marinate the meat for at least 1 hour.
For Gravy
- In a large sauce pot, heat ghee, and add cloves, black peppercorns, small cardamom, and black cardamom. Let the whole spices splutter.
- Add onions and saute till it gets light brown. Add the marinated mutton and saute for 4-5 minutes.
- Add mathania chilli paste and saute well for another 8-10 minutes to remove the rawness of the chillies. Add salt to taste & mix well. Cover and let it cook for 10-12 minutes on low flame.
- In a bowl add curd, coriander powder, red chilli powder, cumin powder, and mustard oil and mix well.
- Transfer the curd mixture to the pot and stir well. Cover with the lid and cook for 30 minutes on low flame till the mutton becomes tender.
- Garnish with coriander sprig and serve hot with bajra roti.