This beauty right here. I am no pumpkin lover but erissery has always held a soft spot in my heart. Mom doesn’t make it that often, actually. She makes pumpkin koottu more often, with dal. But erissery is a quintessential part of the Onam Sadya and I realised I haven’t even tried it myself yet. That idea and this pumpkin combined, and the rest is history 😉
I couldn’t resist more pictures of the pumpkin. It was bright orange-yellow and smooth spotless on the outside. Since this was during Chinese New Year, vegetables in Singapore supermarkets were fresh and mostly from China.
If you would like to check out more Kerala recipes, then my favourites are inji curry, Kerala avial, and cabbage thoran.
Shallots – 3, sliced
Thanks for this great recipe! I was looking for a way to use up some butternut squash and I immediately thought of your site and all of it's yumminess.
I'm still new to Indian cooking (but not Indian eating) and I was thinking about the pumpkin curry my mother-in-law makes – so I thought I'd give it a shot.This turned out really well and wasn't too hard, even for a beginner like me.
I wasn't sure how it turned out, so I gave a bite to my husband. His response, "Mmm, it's good…it reminds be of Kerala." Success!
Thanks again…
that really IS a mighty success for you and the recipe Carly 🙂 Thank you so much for dropping me a line to let me know the recipe worked for you!
I tried calling my mom for this recipe and could not get through her so my second option was to check out your blog! I made it for a potluck and everyone loved it and asked me for the receipe. I love what you make and love your presentation too! Good job 🙂
that is such an amazing compliment. so glad the recipe worked!
my idea was that garlic is inevitable for erissery. is it a regional thing? but we are from the same region! 😛
Its possible I just didn't know that 😀
Wow droolwothy pic. Awesome clicks dear. Never tasted this veggie before. Curry looks yum. Just dropped a mail. Check it dear.
Loved the pictures of the pumpkin..only you could have made it look so pretty;-).We make a similar dish called Alchikeri[Konkani],and I love both.Only difference is we skip the shallot part.
pumpkin & Coconut what a combination ..looks very delicious …. nice click
love the erissery..the pics of the mathanga are really good..those who dont like this vegetable will also like it! 😀
It was our wedding anniversary on feb 21 so I decided to gift my husband with a whole week of 5 course meals from almost all over the world and one such menu was entirely from your blog – Coriander rice, Tomato Chutney, Pepper rasam, brinjal in roasted spices, kerala fish fry and chocolate logs. Well needless to say my husband was one happy married man for that whole week and he was drooling over your kerala feast and calls it the Nagging menu now :). thanks for the lovely and simple recipes. By the way you have made me feel guilty after bombarding both your blogs with posts and I had to finally make a post in my blog…U, Mishmash, Divya of easy cooking and Shaheen of Mallugirl are true inspirations…u guys make me move my lazy self around..
Awesome pictures
Have added your recipe link to my post! 🙂
Awesome pictures
Fantastic…Simply Superb..
Hi da..
Erisserry looks wonderful ..Great snaps as well …
i generally try out new recipes from the internet and i have some mathanga lying in my fridge. i was searching the web for mathanga recipe and i happen to see urs. Am a person who chooses a recipe to be cooked only after carefully going through the ingredients and process of cooking and i found ur style pretty interesting. i get a idea how the curry will taste while going through the recipe and am sure this will be tasty and am gonna try this today itself. Planning to make mathanga, mor curry, matti fry. yummm…i know the mathanga will be waiting to jump out of the fridge into the kadai. thanks =)
That’s great Rency! Hope it comes out well 🙂
This is a really good recipe. Thank you sooo much for your site. I made it today with the variation that I added tamarind and I had a steamed beet leftover which I also added to the coconut mixture in the food processor. The color was beautiful and I liked the zing of the tamarind – though I know this is quite different than the original. Please do keep posting.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment anon – will keep posting 🙂
The pics look so perfect,i prefered the 3rd one…great clicks Nags.A typical south indian dish,rather i shud be saying authentic dish perfect with even steamed rice:-) Yummy!
reminds me of ONAM
lovely eriserry
yes erissery reminds me of onam sadya too 🙂 Thanks Divya 🙂
Amazing pics. And the dish looks authentic.
I have heard so much about this… I should try it sometime. I probably have eaten it without knowing what it was 🙂
This has been on my must try list for a while now! we need to make do with butternut squash though!
Raaga – haha, I am sure you have. Its quite easy to make, isn’t it?
Oh..I dint know that Nags..sorry..:(..Pls see the veg recipes there..:)
My most fav recipe..was planning to make n post it in coming days..My mom makes it another way.adds vanpayar too.curry will look lil dark so n with all the golden brown coconut flakes on top..:)
Btw,Its long since I saw you in my space…:)
Gorgeous pics!The erissery looks delicious ..yum yum
I love the third picture of pumpkin the most,though all are great cliks:)
It was our wedding anniversary on feb 21 so I decided to gift my husband with a whole week of 5 course meals from almost all over the world and one such menu was entirely from your blog – Coriander rice, Tomato Chutney, Pepper rasam, brinjal in roasted spices, kerala fish fry and chocolate logs. Well needless to say my husband was one happy married man for that whole week and he was drooling over your kerala feast and calls it the Nagging menu now :). thanks for the lovely and simple recipes. By the way you have made me feel guilty after bombarding both your blogs with posts and I had to finally make a post in my blog…U, Mishmash, Divya of easy cooking and Shaheen of Mallugirl are true inspirations…u guys make me move my lazy self around..
butternut squash should work well for this recipe. in fact, variations include yam (chena) erissery and ethakka (raw banana) erissery.
Your pics are so good man!
Not able to psot from A&N>Dunno why.
love the erissery..the pics of the mathanga are really good..those who dont like this vegetable will also like it! 😀
Great pics…its been a while since I had erissery…urs look so yumm…
pumpkin & Coconut what a combination ..looks very delicious …. nice click
delicious looking… I love addition of coconut in dishes… they impart a unique flavour 🙂
Delicious and traditional kerala recipe :)Me too join ur pic fan club :)too good nags..
Sakshi – you made my day, you really really did. Shaheen was my inspiration too, to start a blog 🙂
A huge thanks to everyone who liked my pics. It makes the constant nagging backpain totally worth it 🙂
love the first picture.. so vibrant. never tried erissery…. should try sometime.
lovely pics, Nags! I have a piece of the pumpkin lying in the fridge and coconut too at home, I have not made errisery in a looong time too…guess u get the drift..:-)
Yum Yum.. Lovely pics. We dont usually make pumpkin curries, but use them sambhars and kootus. Ur erissery looks delish.
Wish I could get my hands on that lovely Pumpkin!! We get Butter Squash here easily, that;s it. Erissery looks yummy! I am going to make 2 Kerala dishes for next week’s post! :))
I love the pics. The first one is gorgeous. Beautiful 🙂
Loved the pictures of the pumpkin..only you could have made it look so pretty;-).We make a similar dish called Alchikeri[Konkani],and I love both.Only difference is we skip the shallot part.
Wow droolwothy pic. Awesome clicks dear. Never tasted this veggie before. Curry looks yum. Just dropped a mail. Check it dear.
Pumpkin and coconut! i like the sound of this. great flavors here!
Divya – you are too kind, thanks a ton for your sweet comments 🙂 The shallots are optional, btw. I just love adding them while tempering, especially to Kerala recipes.
Hmmm..slurps..Even the pumpkin can be this much beautiful..(awesome)
Erissery is my fav too dear.