Cucumber 🥒 Pachadi (Kerela Style Vellarika Pachadi)

Name: Cucumber 🥒 Pachadi (Kerela Style Vellarika Pachadi)
Total time: 480 s
Yield: serves 1 serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup green cucumber cubes; 1/2 cup fresh curds; 3 tsp coconut oil; 1 tsp ginger, finely chopped; 1/2 cup onion 🧅 cubes; Salt to taste; 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1 dry red chilli, torn to pieces; 2 tsp onion 🧅, finely chopped; 5-6 curry leaves

Bina Samir Telivala @Bina_Samir

#OS
#OnamSpecial
A semi - spicy cucumber raita , made in a typical South Indian Style. Serve it with Bisi Bele Rice , Chitrana Rice or South Indian Stir Fry Rice . It is a tongue - tickling Raita specially made during Onam Festival.
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Bina Samir Telivala @Bina_Samir

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Ingredients

8 minutes

serves 1 serving

1 cupgreen cucumber cubes
1/2 cupfresh curds
3 tspcoconut oil
1 tspginger, finely chopped
1/2 cuponion 🧅 cubes
Salt to taste
1/2 tspmustard seeds
1dry red chilli, torn to pieces
2 tsponion 🧅, finely chopped
5-6curry leaves

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Steps

8 minutes

1

Take coconut oil in a pan, heat it. When it is a little hot, add chopped ginger & onion cubes. Saute for 2 minutes.
2

Add slit green chilli & cucumber cubes. Mix & saute for 4 minutes.
3

Remove in a bowl & cool completely.
4

Add beaten fresh curds & mix.
5

Again warm up little oil for tempering. Add mustard seeds & curry leaves.When the mustard seeds splutter, add chopped onions & dry red chilli pieces. Add this tempering on top of the cucumber - curd mixture. Add salt. Mix. Chill for an hour.
6

Note : Always add salt last as it will release water when added first & it will make the raita / pachadi thin. This holds true for all types of raitas / pachadi.
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Serve as an accompaniment at this Onam Festival.