Cucumber Pachadi

This dish is my husband's favorite, he just love any food with yogurt, we have this dish often back in mom's place. This is a simply dish with very less ingredients and very less time to prepare it. Let's see how to make this.

Ingredients:

1 cucumber(chopped small)
1/2 cup grated coconut
3 bird eye chili
1tsp mustard seed
2 dry red chili
1 sprig curry leaf
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 tbsp oil
Sat to taste

Cut cucumber, remove the seeds and chop into small pieces, add some salt to drain the water from cucumber. Squeeze and drain water from the cucumber and keep aside.

Blend coconut and bird eye chili into coarse paste, add to the cucumber 

into a bowl. Add yogurt to this mixture.

 For tempering, pour oil in a pan add dry red chili, 

curry leaves and mustard seed. Pour this tempering ingredients to the cucumber mixture.

Now our Cucumber Pachadi is ready to be served. Do try and let me know how it turned out.

Pineapple, Cucumber Pachadi

Ingredients:

1 cup pineapple chopped
1 cup cucumber sliced
1/2 cup of sliced onion
1 tbsp of plain yogurt
A pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients above, chill and ready to serve. Such a simple method of making pachadi, you can replace plain yogurt with mayonnaise. This pachadi is so tasty when served with Briyani, Ghee Rice or Pilaf.

Do try out this recipe and let me know how was it.