Saturday, 19 April 2014

CUCUMBER PACHADI RECIPE

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Ingredients:


2 small sized cucumber (kheera)
1/2 inch ginger (adrak)
2-3 green chillies
2 tblsp coconut (narial) (scraped, optional)
1 1/2 cups yogurt
1 tsp oil (tel)
1/2 tsp mustard seeds (raai)
5-6 curry leaves (kari patta)
2 red chillies whole
salt (namak) to taste

Method:

·    Wash and scrub cucumbers thoroughly and then grate with the skin.
·    Pour yogurt (made of skimmed milk) into a clean muslin cloth and hang it for half an hour, preferably in a cool place.
·    Peel, wash and finely chop ginger. Wash green chillies, remove stem and finely chop.
·    Grind together scraped coconut, green chillies and ginger to a fine paste.
·    Mix together the grated cucumber, ground coconut masala and yogurt. Add salt to taste.
·    Heat oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds. When they start to crackle, add curry leaves, whole red chillies broken into two, stir for a moment.
·    Pour it on to the yogurt mixture. Stir it thoroughly.

·    Serve chilled.

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