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Baked Pumpkin and Potato Mash



Ingredients:
For Potato Mash

Potato (large) – 2
Jeera roasted (cumin roasted) – 1 tsp
Salt (sendha) – to taste
Milk – ¼ cup
Butter – 1 tbl spn
Cheese* grated (optional) – 3 tbl spn

For Pumpkin Mash
Pumpkin diced – 2 cups

Salt (sendha) – to taste

Saunf (fennel seeds) – 2 tsp

Butter – 1 tbl spn
Cheese* grated (optional) – 2 tbl spn

Method:

1) Peel and cut the potatoes into two.
Boil potato with some salt.
Once boiled immediately strain them and immediately transfer to a deep pan.

2) Using the potato masher mash up the potatoes while they are still very hot.

Now add butter and milk to it and mix well.

3) Heat a pan and add the mashed potato and season with salt and roasted jeera.

Toss till the mash come together.
Remove to a bowl and add grated cheese.

4) For the pumpkin mash melt butter and add saunf. Sauté for few seconds and add the diced pumpkin and sauté. Add salt and cook till pumpkin goes soft.
Remove into a bowl and mash with it up with a fork.

4) Mix grated cheese with pumpkin.
Place this in a baking dish and spread it on the bottom
. Keep atleast ½ inch thick. Now cover the pumpkin mash with potato mash till it completely covers it.

5) Place this dish in a pre heated oven at 160c for 10 mins
Serve hot.