Ingredients

• 200g - cucumber with yellow skin (curry variety)
• Salt
• 1/2 tbsp - oil
• 4 green chilli
• 1/2 tsp - jeera
• 4 peeled garlic cloves
• 1/4 tsp - mustard seeds
• 1 tsp - tamarind paste

How to Make Garlic Cucumber Chutney

• Peel cucumber, cut into half inch pieces, keep aside.
• Prick the chillies with a needle.
• Heat oil (1/4 tbsp), add cucumber pieces and fry for 3 min and remove.
• In the same pan, add remaining oil, mustard seeds, jeera, garlic cloves.
• Fry till seeds crackle, add green chilli, salt and fry for 2 mins.
• Remove from fire and grind this with tamarind paste and half the quantity of fried cucumber pieces into a coarse paste.
• Add the remaining cucumber pieces and run mixer for a second before removing.
• Serve this chutney with hot rice (of course with a spoonful of desi ghee).