Monday, February 28, 2011

Dosa-avakaya Pachadi (Cucumber Pickle)

The days are still cold and the nights are worst. I usually fall sick around this time of the year with the lack of sun light for more than 5 months at a stretch. When I am sick, I feel like having something hot and spicy. Luckily the last time we went to the grocery store we found the Indian cucumber which we call Dosakaya in Telugu (is there a Tamil word for this?).
Oh how I love this pickle!! I can have it anytime of the day with hot rice and a tsp of ghee...yummy!
Ingredients:
Indian Cucumber (Dosakaya): 1
Mustard Powder: 3 tbsp:
Red Chili Powder: 3 tbsp (make it 4 more more spicy pickle)
Salt: 1 to 1/2 tbsp (stop at 1 1/2 tbsp, you can add later if you need more).
Sesame oil (til/nuvvulu/ellu): 4 to 5 tbsp
Method:
  • Wash the cucumber and dry it. There should not be any water residue. Now, cut the cucumber in to half and remove the seeds. Now, chop them in to 1 inch cubes.
  • Mix salt, chili and mustard powder in a separate bowl and add to the cucumber pieces. Mix well. Now add the spice mix to the cucumber pieces and mix well. 
  • Slowly add the oil to the cucumber pieces. The mixture should me slightly oily like shown below but not too much.
  • Now, cover the bottle/bowl with a tight lid and leave it aside for about a day.
  • The above picture shows how it is supposed to look like when it is freshly prepared. The first picture is how it looks like after a day when we can enjoy the pickle with hot rice, ghee and and mudda pappu (dal without tadka).

15 comments:

  1. Looks absolutely delicious and awesome color dear..

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  2. Delicious pickle with cucumber,love the color,drool worthy..thanks for sharing dear.

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  3. avakkaya is my fav .always i remembering the taste i had from banglore once i tried and it was an unsuccessful story. urs looks delicious and spicy

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  4. Gorgeous color..looks soooo tempting!!


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  5. Tongue tickling pickle..sooooo tempting!

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  6. lovely color...looks very yummyy !!!!!!!
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  7. ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I need I need I neeed ...

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  8. Looks spicy and tempting pickle..

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  9. Oooh! That looks so tempting, lipsmacking recipe

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  10. I have seen this vegetable at Hyderabad hostel, but never know' one can make pickles out of it. Wow, luks delicious, wish I get the same veggie here. Thanks for the recipe:)

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  11. sooo tempting and mouth watering pickle...

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