The vegetable I am using, I call it cucumber, but this really is not the regular salad cucumber most of us would be more familiar with. The market I get it from labels it "Malabar Cucumber" and I doubt if this is available very far from South India. Anyway, this was such an easy recipe, I just had to share it. You could substitute with carrots, just steam the carrots a bit before you start with the actual recipe because they will not cook this fast.
Since "certain people" felt my previous post did not have detailed enough photos:
Cut the cucumber into half and quarter each half. Peel and deseed each of the wedges. |
Slice each wedge into smaller strips and then dice the strips. |
Ingredients:
Cucumber - 250 g
Coconut - About 5 heaped tablespoons
Curd/Yogurt - 3/4 cup (this needs to be khatta, sour - just leave home-made curd out longer than you would usually do)
Green chilies - 2
Black mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Make a thick paste with coconut, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chili, and just enough water to help in making a smooth paste. In a microwave safe bowl, add the diced cucumber, coconut paste, and any remaining yogurt.
Add salt to taste. Mix and place the bowl in the microwave to cook - I keep it on the 100% power setting for 2 minutes. Just watch for the mixture to start boiling and take out soon as it reaches a boil - takes less than 2 minutes if the quantity is lesser.
Now you just need to do the tempering. You would need:
- Cooking oil - Authentic Kerala cuisine uses coconut oil, but you could use something like sunflower oil.
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp - wait till the seeds splutter and then add,
- Dry red chilies - 1 (broken into half - I forgot to do that)
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig
- Methi seeds - about 10 seeds - yup count and take :D
- A pinch of asafoetida.
Take pic and mix :D |
Traditionally served with rice as a side dish, I like eating this with chapatis or paranthas.
Yogurt needs to be sour make this dish. If its not sour enough, the dish is going to taste very boring.
OMGG, Radhika this soo awesome and errr.....it looks so bloody delicious. me noooooo likkeee you at all.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
ReplyDeleteand what do you mean by "certain "people. Sarcastic monkey. grr prr..
me want that cookoomer now. :(( Can i make this regular cookoomber?
and you used fresh coconut or the dry coconut?
ReplyDeleteyou know I make curd rice like this. Take cooked rice, put curd on rice and then put the same tadka you mentioned on the curd rice...not funny but it tastes yum he he h e
ReplyDeleteNo not regular salad-wala cookoomber..fresh coconut..oh I should have specified that??? Almost all Mallu cooking - fresh coconut. Try with carrots..I don't know how it will be though :D
ReplyDeleteand what's with the cute table cloth...me too want such cute table cloth.. *smug*..OMZZGGGG!! I am staring staring at the piccys. You eat hajmola after eating your meal okay? :P
ReplyDeleteCertain people - JOMOL and RATI
ReplyDeleteErr..cute table cloth...is a secret.
ReplyDeletebt carrots would be orange na..me want it to be pretty white.. *smuggg moree*
ReplyDeletei wodner where will i get fresh coconut here...grrrrrr
ReplyDeleteyou took revenge na...can phor you.
I give up. No idea. You wait till I post some other mallu recipe and try that instead.
ReplyDelete*wonder. he he e
ReplyDeleteI post for you some time with coconut milk..you get coconut milk????? Do you get anything other than those muffins??????? Me ate like a starved pig got so hungry seeing your pics :-(( And hubby cannot understand why I am grumpy :D
ReplyDeleteme like you lazy recipes. :D :D one day i wanted to try your bread upma thingy, I didnt have potatoes at my house onlyyy....I'll make one of these days. I have loads of bread now and tomorrow i have to buy potatoes. he h e
ReplyDeletehe he yes we get coconut milk, nicely packed in tetra packs. :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteand you have fresh curry patta also..**smugg* i use the packed dry ones. but they are not bad either.
ReplyDeleteI post lazy bum mallu recipe next week..you can manage with coconut milk..is super lazy bum :D but you do need khatta dahi :D
ReplyDeleteI have a curry leaf plant - 2 actually. You don't get fresh curry leaves in the market there?
ReplyDeleteokay i make dahi khatta. just inform me before hand he he he
ReplyDeletenahin nt at subji walas. they have no fresh curry patta. they only have fresh dhaniya and pudina patta. also palak patta, patta gobhi, saag patta but no curry patta
ReplyDelete:| :| :| wowwww..I have so many things to courier to you :D :D :D Filter coffee ka filter..curry patta seed...my abandoned Maxfactor foundation
ReplyDeleteyour cookoomber is so motu and cute. we get log like cookooombers here., *smugggzzz*
ReplyDeleteOh you get palak..me post that recipe too..errr...some time next month..cos I have to cook it na to post it :|
ReplyDeleteI dont want you maxfactor foundation...groooooooosssssssssss
ReplyDeletehe he ...I know how to make palak. also palak paneer..- make palak and put paneer, hummpphhh!!
ReplyDeleteGRRRRRRRR...THIS IS NOT SALAD CUCUMBER...we get chotu chotu "European hybrid" whatever that means cucumbers here...single serving kinds..heheheee...they are costlier than the biggies but don't get wasted na. Cos only I eat, hubby hates cukes!
ReplyDeletesame here. my hubby also likes onions not cookoombers. Like he likes all faaltoo things in the world- namely potatoes. he he h e
ReplyDeleteactually he likes me as well, I think. :P
:D :D :D :D Donkeys like faltoo things :D :D :D
ReplyDeletegrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
ReplyDeleteYumm...Vellarikka pachadi is a hot fave at home Rads. I make it with pavakka and vendakka as well. Have you tried those in pachadis?
ReplyDeleteNEVER!!! Never seen it also!! Pavakka is karela na? And vendakka?? You saute it before adding?
ReplyDeleteOOh..is it? Yeah pavakka=karela and vendakka=okra. I deep fry the pavakka coz if not, it will be too bitter. Vendakka is sauteed for a while and added :-)
ReplyDeleteBtw, there is an easy tip for karela..just use the karela vadam(fryums)..will make your life easy coz frying fresh karela is a pain
Oh wowwww...should try it some time. We never buy karelas - hubby and I both don't eat - but will definitely try with the vadams once I get my hands on some :D Thankoooooooooooooo :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteWelcome...
ReplyDeleteI love karela...so its a regular at home :-)
will wait for ur pics once u cook..or just try okra..why force yourself to eat something that you dislike
Okra might be a better option. Karela will have to wait till I get them..oh I think karela bitterness gets quiet beaten and subdued once its fried..mom makes a fried sabji with it which was quite tasty :D
ReplyDeleteSo many of us stay up so late :D :D Me finished with my work...gooood night :D
ReplyDeleteGood morning Rads....Morning morning yours and Rati's post are creating havoc to my dieting regime!!!!
ReplyDeleteGood morning Cali :) :) Oh this one is healthy..it won't hurt your dieting.
ReplyDeletehe he he he!!! :D :D....That muffin post made such a hit on my taste buds.....and then this!! :P :P...
ReplyDeleteI was so hungry yesterday after reading the muffin post!! :D :D
ReplyDeleteme trying this, and from Poornima got the tip of pavekka pachadi, though i never made it, cos i hate pavekka, but nowadays kind of liking it......
ReplyDeletemore of avial theeyal recipes too ;)
Yup that's a nice tip, using pavakka and bhindi :) I didn't even know pachadi could be made that way! I don't know how to make theeyal :-(
ReplyDeleteThere are tears of joy in my eyes.....there are detailed photographs and even detailed ingredient and preparation method......not some odd link that leads to some other website.....he he he, I am very very yappy...and that pachadi looks the same way my mother makes........ammachi....he he he
ReplyDeleteOhhhh...tears of joy!!!!! Do you make anything?????? Last time also...my half-baked post you showed to your mom..and now this one also its like how your mom makes. Looks like my poor daughter is going to have to hire a cook once she marries Aarohan...what a useless mother-in-law you will be!
ReplyDeletehey hidimbi....you able to access Rati's blog kya.......I am not able to.......:(
ReplyDeleteHeheheheee...is my evil plan..so everyone reads my blog. Only after you read my blog you can access IMBB...hhahahahahhahahah....hehehehehahahahhahaa..errr....I can access it, Jomol. You clear cache and try again.
ReplyDeleteI think her ip got blacklisted. me getting it rescued. :D :d I think she was accessing igniter way too much. he he he
ReplyDeletegod radhika, you'll die when you read jomol's post today. no kidding. I am already arranging for flaaawers....:D :D :D
ReplyDeleteJomol on mail...hehehehehee.
ReplyDeleteYou know....i will make your daughter make all Ethiopian and Scandinavian nonveg dishes....not these pacchadi kicchadi that you will teach her..........
ReplyDeletehe he checking. :P :P
ReplyDeleteThat's her problem really, not mine. Teach her???? Why would I teach her anything????
ReplyDeleteRads! This is so mouth-watering!I'm south Indian too, stay at Hyd, so I'm so fond of the chutneys you know!Telugu People in hyd also make chutney from the ridgegourd peel!These days I'm having vegetable achaar!:-)
ReplyDeleteHii Uzma..ya I have read about pachadis in Andhra cuisine though never tried making any myself. Ridgegourd peels?? Wowww..that's very different from anything I have ever seen!
ReplyDeleteI looooveeee this pachchdi .... like seriously love it ....when I was in kerala thats all I ate !! My mom doesnt make it very good though but hers also chalega :P
ReplyDeleteChalega???!!!! Someone call J's mom :D :D :D
ReplyDeletei thought pachadi was chutney. even in telugu
ReplyDeleteooohhh and i ate that ridgeguard/ ridgeguard peel pachadi! super dooper yumm!! called beerakai pachadi!:D i want nowww!!!
ReplyDeletei wrote guard. i was very ashamed. but then, its your blog!:P
ReplyDeleteI no say/see/sawww anything :D :D :D
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