Khamang Kakdi Recipe

Cucumber salad made with curd and roasted peanuts

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5 from 3 votes

An easy fasting cucumber salad made with cucumber and peanuts.

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Course: Brunch, Side Dish

Cuisine: Indian

Keyword: Asian Cooking, Bachelor Recipes, Condiments, cucumber, Cucumber Salad, Easy Snack, Everyday Food, Fasting foods, Healthy Food, Kid Friendly Food, Kosambri, Southekayi Kosambari

Servings:

Calories: 83kcal

Author: ArchanaPotdar

Equipment

Peeler
Knife and board
Tempering Pan
chutney jar of mixer/blender
Spoons and Ladles
1 Bowls

Ingredients

½ cup Cucumber finely diced
1 teaspoon peanuts powder roasted
¼ teaspoon Salt to taste
¼ teaspoon Sugar
1 Green chillies slit lengthwise
2 tablespoon yoghurt adjust to taste

For tempering (tadka)

1 teaspoon Oil
1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
Asafoetida Powder A pinch of

Instructions

Roast the peanuts till you get a nutty aroma and the peanuts skin gets blackish spots.
Let them cool. You can then peel the peanuts and make a coarse powder.

Let’s attend to the cucumber now

Generally the cucumber is peeled while making koshimbir. I do not you can skip it too.
Dice the cucumber to fine pieces and transfer to a bowl.
Squeeze out the water from the cucumber. This excess water caused the salad to become soggy.
Add the peanut powder, yogurt, salt, sugar to taste. Mix well.
Heat oil in a small pan. Spluter the mustard seeds add the asaoetida.
Add green chillies and pour the tempering on the cucumber mixture.
Adjust the seasonings and serve immediately.

How to serve:

Serve with chapatis, fulks, rice and dal as a side.
For fasting days, festive days like Ganesh, Navratri, Ugadi serve with your festive masale bhat, tomato saar.
On a hot summers day Kakdi chi koshimbir enjoy as a meal.

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Notes

Substitutions:

Peanuts can be replaced by almonds or walnuts.
Lemon can substitute curds.
The nuts you can substitute with lentils. Use soaked yellow lentil or Bengal Gram.
Bengal gram you will need to soak for at least 30 minutes. Drain and then coarsely crush it. Add green chillies and lemon to taste.
The soaked yellow lentil you can mix with the cucumber directly. This is Kosambri served in Karnataka for festive meals.
For a fasting recipe, make the tempering with clarified butter and cumin seeds and chillies.

Variations:

The peanut powder can be coarse or fine as you wish.
Adjust the chilli to suit your taste.
Though tempering is recommended for everyday salad I avoid it.
Add lemon in place of curds.
Add soaked yellow lentils or soaked and coarsely crushed Bengal gram in place of the peanut powder.

Pro Tips:

Remember to squeeze out the water from the diced cucumber. This keeps the salad from becoming soggy.
If you plan to use the salad later add the salt, sugar and peanut just before serving.
Adjust the number of green chillies to suit your taste. I generally just slit the chillies and add them. Can be easily removed.
You can use curry leaves on normal days. In Maharashtra, curry leaves are not used for Upvas.

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