Khamang Kakdi (Maharashtrian Style Cucumber Salad)

This is simple and tasty salad, I luv it's aroma, texture and of course taste. Some people called it ......."Kakadichi Koshimbir".

हि पाककृती वाचा मराठीतून ……. इथे क्लिक करा.  


Ingredients:

• Green cucumber- 2 
• Green Chilies, finely chopped- 2
• Lemon juice- ½ lemon 
• Fresh coconut, scrapped- 2 tbsp (optional)
• Peanuts crush- 2 tbsp
• Fresh coriander, finely chopped- a handful 
• Sugar- ½ tsp or to taste
• Salt to taste
• Clarified butter (Shudh ghee)- 1 tsp
• Asafoetida (Hing)- ¼ tsp
• Cumin seeds- ½ tsp

Method:

• Wash cucumber and peel. Cut out both ends. (Taste a little piece of cucumber because some cucumbers are bitter.)
• Chop finely and rub little salt. Keep aside for 2 minutes. 
• Squeeze cucumber and discard excess water.
• Combine this squeezed cucumber,  peanut crush, chilli, coriander, fresh coconut, sugar, lemon juice and little salt (add salt carefully because we have already rubbed salt to cucumber). Mix well.
• Heat ghee in a tadka pan or small pan. Add cumin seeds, hing and switch off gas. Do not burn cumin seeds.
• Pour this mixture to cucumber. Mix again.
• Serve in any meal as side dish.

You can eat for fasting/vrat/upavas, just avoid to use hing and coriander leaves.