Vellarikka Pachadi

Ingredients

• • Cucumbers (prepare: peel skin and cut into pieces) - 1 cup
• • Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Curd - ½ cup
• • Coconut (grated) - ¾ cup
• • Green chillies - 3
• • Cumin seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Turmeric powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Oil - 2 teaspoons
• • Red chilly (dried) - 1
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
• • Salt - as required

Method

• 1. Cook cucumber with needed salt, turmeric powder and little water.
• 2. Grind grated coconut, green chilly, 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds and cumin seeds to a smooth paste.
• 3. Add the ground paste into the cooked cucumber and slow cook it for 2 minutes. Add needed salt.
• 4. Transfer it to a bowl and mix curd to it
• 5. Then for tempering, add oil to a medium heat pan and splutter mustard seeds, dried red chilly and curry leaves.
• 6. Splutter mustard, dried red chilly and curry leaves in hot oil and mix with pachadi.