easy cucumber sasmi (chutney) or southekai sasmi recipe

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 5 minutes
  • Total time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 3 people
  • Category: chutney
  • Cuisine: south indiain

Ingredients

  • 1 medium size cucumber

to blend:

  • 2-3 dried kashmiri red chillies
  • grape sized tamarind
  • 1 tsp of mustard seeds / sasive
  • 1 cup of coconut (grated)
  • salt to taste

for tempering:

  • 2 tsp coconut oil or cooking oil
  • 1 tsp urad dal
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • few curry leaves
  • 1 red chilli (dried)

Method

  1. firstly, chop the cucumber finely and keep it aside.
  2. further in a small blender add coconut, mustard seeds, red chillies, salt and tamarind together.
  3. blend to a fine paste adding water as required.
  4. add finely chopped cucumber to grounded coconut paste.
  5. mix the coconut paste and cucumber well.
  6. furthermore, heat a kadai add coconut oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilly and curry leaves.
  7. when the mustard seeds splutter pour the seasoning to the saasmi.
  8. finally, serve cucumber saasmi along with hot rice or with dosas and idliy's.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.