Khaman Kakdi Recipe
Khaman Kakdi Recipe
Cuisine: GujaratiKhaman Kakdi Recipe: Khaman Kakdi is a savory and tangy salad made with cucumbers, tempered with mustard seeds, and flavored with spices. It’s a refreshing side dish.
Ingredients
2 tblsp scraped coconut
a pinch asafoetida
2 tblsp oil
100 gm bengal gram divide (chana dal)
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2 – 3 green chillies
4 – 5 curry leaves
salt to taste
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp powdered sugar
1 inch ginger
250 gm cucumbers
2 tblsp chopped coriander leaves
Directions
- Dry roast the chana dal for 2-3 minutes on a high flame
- Heat up and then soak in water for 8-10 hours.
- Remove and dry grind coarsely.
- Take off the cucumber and shred.
- Mix in salt and leave it aside in a round dish for half an hour.
- Take off the ginger and grind it with green chillies.
- Remove out all the water from the cucumber.
- Mix chana dal, cucumber, ginger-green chilli paste
- Then little more salt if required.
- Mix in cut coriander leaves, scraped coconut,
- Add also lemon juice, powdered sugar and mix well.
- Heat up oil in a pan.
- Mix in mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- When it starts crackling,
- mix in this tempering on salad and mix.
- Now serve on ocassions
