DISH NAME : KAKKIRIKKA PERUKKU (CUCUMBER COCONUT CURRY)

Preparation Time : 15 minutes

Cooking Time : 5 minutes

Description

This is a cooling curry or salad as it may be called. Can be served as a side dish or can be poured into rice as gravy.

Note

1) The cucumbers i took weighed around 250gms.
2) Adjust chillies according to your spice tolerance level. Using bird's eye chilli (kanthari) will give a good taste.
3) Add salt only just before serving. Salt will make the salad watery.

Method

1) Peel and deseed cucumber. Cut into very fine pieces.
2) Grind coconut and green chillies to a coarse paste. Add mustard and grind to just crush mustard.
3) Mix cucumber with ground ingredients.
4) Whisk curd and add to cucumber.
5) Add salt to taste.
Tempering
1) Heat coconut oil.
2) Splutter mustard.
3) Add dry chilly and curry leaves.
4) pour over the cucumber salad.

Serving Suggestions

Serve with rice.