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CUCUMBER PACHADI RECIPE

• Wash and scrub cucumbers thoroughly and then grate with the skin.
  
  
• Pour yogurt (made of skimmed milk) into a clean muslin cloth and hang it for half an hour, preferably in a cool place.
  
  
• Peel, wash and finely chop ginger. Wash green chillies, remove stem and finely chop.
  
  
• Grind together scraped coconut, green chillies and ginger to a fine paste.
  
  
• Mix together the grated cucumber, ground coconut masala and yogurt. Add salt to taste.
  
  
• Heat oil in a small pan, add mustard seeds. When they start to crackle, add curry leaves, whole red chillies broken into two, stir for a moment.
  
  
• Pour it on to the yogurt mixture. Stir it thoroughly.
  
  
• Serve chilled.