Pumpkin Cutlets

Ingredients:
1 medium sized pumpkin
9 medium sized potatoes
6 green chillies
a pinch of asafoetida
1 tsp mustard
1 1/2 tsp black gram dal
juice of half a lime
4 tbsp fine semolina or rice powder
3 tbsp ghee
a few curry leaves
salt to taste

Method:
1. Wash and peel the pumpkin, cut into cubes and boil till sufficiently soft for about 15 minutes and keep aside.
2. Boil, peel and mash the potatoes.
3. Add salt and lime juice.
4. Heat two teaspoons of ghee in a frying pan, add mustard, black gram dal, a few curry leaves and the green chillies cut into pieces.
5. After the spluttering stops, add mashed potatoes, pumpkin and salt.
6. Keep a tawa on the fire and smear it with a little ghee.
7. Make into balls.
8. Dip each ball in the semolina or rice powder and roast on the tawa

Serve hot.