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

Method:

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

Recipe courtesy of Uma Devi Ramachandra