Southekayi mosaru palya recipe | How to make cucumber side dish | Southekai raita
By Latha on Feb 3rd, 2023
Southekayi mosaru palya or cucumber side dish recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Cucumber raita or hasi gojju is a very easy and tasty side dish for rice or chapathi. This southekai or cucumber curry can be prepared using very minimum ingredients and it tastes too good.
Recipes like this southekayi mosaru palya are life savers. When you are in hurry or a sudden guest at home, you can prepare these type of recipes along with the other menu items. You can also prepare this cucumber side dish in the morning as it matches with any type of breakfast.
I have few more recipes using cucumber like cucumber idli, cucumber halbai, cucumber sambar, cucumber bolu huli and cucumber chutney.
If you are looking for more tambli or thambuli recipes then do check my coriander leaves thambli, spring onion thambli, doddapathre hasi thambuli, Shunti or ginger thambli, doddapthre thambuli, brahmi thambuli, dasavala thambuli and ginger thambuli recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized cucumber
- 1/2 cup curd
- 1 onion
- 1 - 2 green chillies
- 1 tbsp curry leaves
- Big pinch of asafoetida
- Big pinch of turmeric
- 1 tsp salt or as per your taste
Ingredients for tempering: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 red chili
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp urad dal
Instructions for making southekayi mosaru palya:
- Take one medium sized cucumber.
- Finely chop the cucumber. Refer to the image or video. Take tender cucumber and optionally you can peel it.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil. Prepare tempering using mustard seeds, cumin seeds and urad dal.
- Also add in broken red chillies. Wait until mustard seeds splutter.
- Next add in chopped onion, curry leaves and green chilli.
- Fry until onions turn soft.
- Add in chopped cucumber.
- Add in salt as per taste. Also add in asafoetida and turmeric.
- Fry and cook until cucumber pieces turn slightly soft. Wait until excess heat is reduced.
- Whisk the curd.
- Add it into the cooked cucumber.
- Give a quick mix. You can adjust the salt as per taste. Serve it with rice, chapati, roti or poori.
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