Ingredients

• Cucumber - 1
• 1/2 coconut, grated
• Gram dal - 1 cup
• Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
• Red chilli - 7-8
• Tamarind - a small ball
• Jaggery or gur - 1 tsp
• Coriander - a few
• Oil - 2 tsp
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves (optional)
• Salt to taste

How to Make Cucumber & Coconut Chutney

• Peel the cucumber and cut it into small pieces.
• Add a spoon of oil in a kadai and fry the gram dal, cumin seeds, and the chilli till they turn brown in colour.
• Now take the coconut, salt, tamarind, jaggery, and the fried dal and spices, and grind them into a slightly coarse paste.
• In the end, put the chopped cucumber in the mixer and grind coarsely.
• Heat one teaspoon of oil and add curry leaves and mustard.
• Allow the mustard to splutter and add this to the chutney.
• This goes very well with chapati and rice.
• Garnish with Coriander leaves.