Nagaland is one of the seven sisiter states, which is situated in the far north eastern part of India. It shares its boundaries with Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar and Manipur. The cuisine of Nagas is basically spicy with so many varities of chillies available there. Smoking, fermenting and sun drying are the various techniques used in Naga cooking. Pork, meat and fish are used much along with bamboo shoots and vegetables. When I was going through recipes for Nagaland, I came across this sweet pickle at one blog. This Ombhal is also in the other sisiter states’ cuisine too. When I read the recipe, I was not very sure about how it woyuld taste as it had both jaggery and tamarind. And I was so skeptical about serving this to hubby. But to my utter surprise, he liked it so much. So in two days, he finished the dish. As he is a great fan of sweet pickles, he liked it. And I din’t tell him about the pumpkin part. And he couldn’t guess. Because if let out the secret he would never taste it. He is such a great fan of pumpkin!!!!
Recipe Source: iFood
Ingredients:
Pumpkin-250 gm
Red Chilly-2
Tamarind Water-1/4 cup
Grated Jaggery-1/4 cup
Salt-to taste
Bay Leaf-1
Mustard Seeds-1/2 tsp
Raisins-1/2 tsp
Lime Juice-1/2 tsp
Oil-1 tsp
Procedure:
1. Peel, remove seeds and cut pumpkin into cubes.
2. Add tamarind water and cook on low flame until pumpkin is mushy.
3. With a fork, mash it coarsely.
4. In a pan heat oil and add mustard, bay leaf and raisins.
5. When mustard crackles, add the pumpkin mixture and salt.
6. Let it cook for a minute.
7. Add jaggery and let it boil until it becomes slightly thick.
8. Remove from flame. Add lemon juice.
9. Serve and Enjoy!!!!
i liked it nice looking oambhal picture, this recipe will be staying at home as an option for long
3rd ombhal today, you guys are making me drool and seriously cant resist to that bowl.
Ombal is the winner today??Lovely pick.
Ombhal looks wonderful sis .May be ur husband might have thought it as mango not the pumkin .
same pinch!! I also made oambal… so delicious
That’s a nice dish Gayathri…your got the right texture!
Even I made this Oombal..and my hubby quite enjoyed it.This one looks yum.
It is always amazing how many tricks we need to play to hide the ingredients when serving to family 🙂
Yummy looking pumpkin Oambal.
Thinking about 7 sister states,i feel a shiver running through my body, they surely gave us jitters!!! Pumpkin ombhal wins hands down today!!! looks interesting!!
haha.. that is a nice trick to get husband eat what he doesn’t like! 🙂 I do it sometimes and it works most of the time. Ombhal seems to be the favorite recipe for this state. Looks delicious
Finger licking pumpkin oambal,looks yummy…
Haha nice way to fool hubby into eating this dish!But it does look good so must have tasted great that he wouldn’t have noticed it…
I am loving all the version of this delicious pumpkin dish
Haha Gayatri I too did not mention the pumpkin part. Looks yum.
it always feels great when some dishes turn out better than we expected.. pumpkin oambal looks yum