cucumber kichadi (Vellarikka kichadi)

Ingredients:

1. Cucumber cur into small pieces - 1 cup

2. Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
green chilly - 2 nos
Cuminseed - 1 tsn
3. Curd - 1/2 cup

4. Salt - to taste

5. Curry leaves - 1 bunch
Red chilly - 2 nos
Mustard seed - 1 tsn
Fenugreek - 1 pinch
6. Coconut oil - 2 tsn

Method;

Cook the cut cucumber with one cup water and salt. Grind the ingredients no.2 with little water into a fine paste. Add it to the cooked cucumber with one pinch of crushed mustard seed. Boil till the water dries up. Allow it to cool. Add curd and stir well. Add salt if needed.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the ingredients no.5 and pour this to the curry.

This curry is a very special item in sadya.