This is a simple South Gujarati Salad from my MIL's Kitchen. South Gujarat borders Maharashtra and I get amazed by some of the recipes that are so similar between these two cuisines. Sometimes the names are same but the ingredients are different or vice versa. This salad reminds me of Khamang Kakdi but both the salads have their own unique identity.
Khaman Kakdi
Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
1 big cucumber or 3-4 small cucumbers, peeled & grated or minced
1/4 cup Daliya/puffed chana daal, powdered
Salt to taste
2 green chilies, cut
1 tbsp cilantro/coriander leaves, chopped
1 tbsp fresh coconut
1/2 lemon, freshly squeezed
Method
1. Grate the cucumber & squeeze out water.
2. Just before serving, mix in all the remaining ingredients.
Note
1. If you want, you can add a tempered oil of mustard seeds, cumin seeds and asafoetida. However, my MIL does not add any tempering to this simple salad.
This Salad goes to SWC:The Salad under 15 minutes event.
11 comments:
I have neve rhad salade like this, it looks really yumm and refrshing.
Khaman from Daliya is really unique, looks yum.
Can you believe our broadband completely went off at 4pm y'day!! Arvind has to fix it at 10pm when he came home from work! :D
Adding Dhaliya is new to me. We do without adding dhaliya.. Refreshing salad...
Looks good to me..So many variations of this salad even within your family hanh? Wonderful.
I think I agree with Asha. Adding Daliya is unique.
Please come n collect an award my dear :).
I will try this. This is very similar to the kosumbari :-)
Cucumber is my favourite and the salad is sooo simple!!
Thanks for the recipe Meera
HC:
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Asha:
Yes. it's little different than usual due to daliya addition. Oh oh!! Sorry to heat about your boradband disaster. Glad to know that it's up & running.
Ashwini:
Thanks. Daliya adds an interesting flavor.
Maya:
Thanks, dear!
LG:
I agree with her too!!;-)
Maya:
Thanks for the award. Will grab it!!;-)
Raaga:
Yes, similar to kosumbari except daliya, right?
Priya:
Thanks for dropping by and your sweet comment.
Meera, I missed out on this! The dalia pood is new n m trying to feel what it might taste like! (I seem to b repeating this..yet..had my maushis koshambir- first time wt shengdana pood(coarse)+rai pood+ sugar, which is added just when ready to eat!)wd try this!
Meera, cucumber raitas or salads usually always have yogurt in them, so it's delightful to find a recipe that doesn't use yogurt. This is a wonderful one. Thanks!
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