Kitchen Tantra

Cucumber Thayir Pachadi:Ingredients:

Cucumber 1 bowl(peeled & cored)
Yogurts 2-3 cups
Oil 1-2 spoons.

Wet-Grind These:

Fresh grated coconut 3-5 spoons
Green chilies 2-3
Salt
Yogurts 1/4 cup.

For Tempering:(optional)

Oil few spoons
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Asafoetida 1/4 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves few.

Method:

Peel and core cucumber and fienly chop them.

Now wet grind coconut, green chili, salt and 1/4 cup of curd.

Combine cucumber and wet-ground above paste in yogurd. Mix them well.

In a shallow frying pan...heat oil and add sesonning items and wait till they pop.

Then run this above sesonning over mixed cucumber-yogurts set-up.

Serve chillied or at room temeprature as a side dish.

Labels: Salad/Pachadi