Cucumber (Kakkarikka) Pachadi | A Special Side Dish for Onam Sadya

  

Cucumber(Kakkarikka) Pachadi is an authentic Kerala festive recipe, made during the festive seasons of Onam,Vishu and even served for wedding sadya's in Kerala.
I love and like to make this pachadi as it has a very good flavour and very easy to make.Hope you too try this for Onam...

 

Ingredients

1. Cucumber(Kakkarikka) - 1 Big
2. Grated coconut - 3/4 Cup
3. Mustard Seeds - 1/4 Tsp
4. Ginger chopped - 1/2 Tsp
5. Green chilli - 2
6. Yogurt -1/2 Cup
7. Jeera powder  / cumin powder - 1/4 Tsp
8. Curry Leaves - 4 to 5 leaves
9. Salt - as needed

To Temper

1. Coconut Oil - 1 Tbsp
2. Mustard seeds - 1 Tsp
3. Curry Leaves - 1 Sprig
4. Dry red chilli - 3

Preparation

• Wash  and peel the skin of cucumber.Grate it to fine shreds as shown in figure. Add some salt and mix well. Keep for 5 minutes.

• In a mixer grind to a smooth paste of coconut, green chilli, ginger,mustard seeds. Add in yogurt and mix well.

• Drain the salt water from shredded cucumber and add the coconut - yogurt paste. Mix well. Sprinkle jeera powder and curry leaves , mix properly. The pachadi should be quite thick and not watery. 

• Heat oil to temper, add in mustard seeds, let it crackle and dry red chillies, curry leaves. Pour this onto the pachadi.
• Serve as a side dish for rice at lunch.

Avocado Smoothie

Hi buddies, that was a whole month away from blogging. All might be thinking, "Did i take a break???", not really , but i was forced to.A virus had entered my family, the great "Chicken Pox" and it caught hold of both my husband and daughter. First it was my husband, who was coming back from Kerala and after 2 weeks my daughter. Its is said that during medication, they should have only oil free - fat free foods, fruits, veggies and loads of water . Loads of fruits like watermelon, musambi, robesta bananas , tender coconut water...to keep the body cool. When i had in my childhood days.. we use used to have Kanji as lunch and dinner and then rest fruits.. and my daughter hates KANJI. Initially i prepared kanji only for my husband but later, my daughter suggested to use non-sick pan. After that i prepared all the normal foods, oil-free and bit tasty.I prepared chapathis, upma, all veg curries, idli, dosa, pathiri, puttu, no oil, no coconut and no milk products. Now that they all are fine and coming back to normal diet here i am back to blogging. I was so worried about the event that i was guest hosting "Dish it out- Light Dinners", as i was unable to reply to each of the participants. and to my surprise.. there was almost 95 entries when i checked..i was so very surprised.I was so happy and excited. Thanks for all the support and making it a success and just 4 more days to close my event. So buddies cook more and more tasty recipes and link it to "Light Dinners".. so let's keep cooking and blogging.

On this note i would love to post this simple recipe of Avocado.. i have had this smoothie many times from outside, but never tried it at home... and it was so easy to make and refreshing.. and all loved it..all might be knowing the goodness of this fruit/veggie.Here goes the recipe..

Ingredients

1. Avocado - 1 ripe
2. Milk - 500 ml, chilled
3. Sugar - 2-3 Tbsp (adjust accordingly to your taste buds...)
4. Ice cubes - 4

Preparation

• Halve the avocado, discard the seed, and peel off the shell. Scoop the flesh from inside with a spoon.
• Put the scooped avocados, half the milk, and sugar in a blender or container of hand blender. Blend on high speed until smooth. Quickly blend in the remaining milk.
• Pour into 2 glasses , drop ice cubes and serve immediately, you might even need a spoon!

Notes

• You can also substitute sugar with honey..

Linking this to Priya of My Kitchen Odyssey event " Favourite recipes" and My Zesty Kitchen

Grape Juice - Refreshing.....

Got fresh grapes from 'Hyper City'.... As we wanted to have fresh juice back home... couldn't get a photo of fresh grapes....
Ingredients

1. Grapes - 1/2 Kg
2. Sugar - use as needed [depending upon the sweetness of grapes.]
3. Ice cubes
4. Water - 3 cups or as needed

Preparation

• Wash grapes in fresh water.Soak these grapes in lukewarm water for 1/2 hour. Cool it down.
• Put the grapes in a blender. Add sugar. Blend with little water in which grapes was soaked. Add 2-3 ice cubes.
• Blend it well and filter it.
• Serve with ice cubes on top.

Mango Smoothie

Ingredients

1. Mango Slices - 1/2 Cup
2. Cold Milk (Frozen)- 1 Cup
3. Sugar - 2-3 Tbsp

Preparation

• Blend all the ingredients in a mixer.

Notes

• Check on the thickness of the juice. If its too thick add more milk. Make sure it is not watery.
• Also adjust the amount of sugar accordingly.

I am sending this to the Kids Event hosted by Guru's cooking

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