Cucumber Pachadi

Ingredients:

Cucumber / Marrow/ Vellarikka - 1 small cup and (remove skin  and cut to small square pieces)
Grated Cocunut- 1/2 cup
Green chillies- 2 small or I big
Jeera- 1/2 teaspoon
Mustard - 1 teaspoon
Shallots- 1
Plain Yogurt- 1/2 cup

For Tempering

Coconut oil- 1 teaspoon
Dry Chillies- 2 nos
Curry leaves- 1 spring

 

Preparation

Cook the cucumber in a heavey bottom pan with some water until it become soft. Put the ingredients for grinding into the mixer grinder and grind into a fine paste. Add this to the cooked cucumber along with salt.  Switch off the flame when the mixture starts to boil. Add yogurt when the mixture cools a bit and give a good stir.

Heat oil in a small frying  pan and add mustard seeds. Wait for the mustard to pope and add the dry chillies and curry leaves. Switch off flame and add this to the prepared cucumber.

Cucumber pachadi is ready to serve!!!!

TIPS: I don't grind mustard seeds with the coconut in the mixer grinder.  I just grind them with pestle and mortar and then add to the grinded coconut.