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Spicy Cucumber Pickle


Spicy cucumber pickles is a side dish, popular with briyani which is normally served on special occassion like a wedding. Other familiar condiments to be served alongside briyani rice and this spicy cooked pickle are pappadom and chicken curry.

Spicy Cucumber Pickle

Spicy Cucumber Pickle

I love this pickle because the vegetables stay crunchy and the smell and the taste of them increase my appetite further to enjoy the rest of the meal.

  • 0.5kg cucumber (deseeded and cut into 5 cm strips)

  • 200g carrot (cut into 5 cm strips)

  • 200g fresh pineapple

  • 3tbs white vinegar

  • 6 tbs vegetable oil

  • 1 tbs mustard seed

  • 200g onion (processed finely)

  • 30g garlic (processed finely)

  • 30g candlenuts (pounded with mortar)

  • 2 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and pounded with mortar

  • A pinch of salt

  • 80g sugar

  • 200g shallots, peeled and halved

  • 2 red chillies, peeled and deseeded

  • 1 green chillies, halved and deseeded

Method:

  1. Mix cucumber, carrot, pineapple and vinegar in a bowl. Set aside for 20 mins. Strain the vinegar out, leave for one hour to dry.

  2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, onion, garlic, candle nut and chilli paste. When fragrant, add turmeric. Stir well.

  3. Add salt and sugar, stir till the paste is thick.

  4. Add the marinated vegetables in step no.1. Stir. Serve hot or cold as desired.

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