Cucumber Curry Recipe

I thought some of you might like this cucumber curry recipe that we've been using for the last few years - sour, fragrant, fresh and as hot as you want!

Cucumber Curry - from the internet with apologies to the original unknown creator.

For two people when served with 2 or 3 other dishes.

1 cucumber, cut into 5cm (ish) batons or chunks
½ tbs fenugreek seeds
Walnut sized piece of tamarind, soaked in 5tbs hot water for about 20 minutes and then pressed through a sieve to get about 3 tbs of pulpy tamarind water 
1 fresh green medium hot chilli, or to taste
2 tbs desiccated coconut
½ tsp black mustard seeds
½ tsp ground turmeric
Dried (or fresh) curry leaves, about half a dozen broken up
Veg oil – ½ tbs
Salt to taste

Dry roast the fenugreek until fragrant then blend briefly into a lumpy paste with the coconut, turmeric, fresh chilli & tamarind water.

Heat the oil and fry the mustard seeds until they begin to pop, turn the heat down and add the curry leaves and the paste. Cook gently for two or three minutes before adding the cucumber. Turn the cucumber over in the paste until it is well coated and warmed through – you don’t want to cook the cucumber. You should end up with crunchy cucumber coated in the zingy paste.

Season to taste with salt. Serve warm.