South Indian kosambari (salad) recipe

Last week I found cucumbers on sale at the store and bought a bunch of them to make South Indian kosambari (a type of salad). I thought I'd share the recipe. You can also use carrots instead of cucumbers (recipe below).

Carrot Kosambari

Prep Time : 10 mins (excluding soaking time)

Serves: 2-3

Recipe Category: Salad-Carrots

Recipe Cuisine: Karnataka

Author: Padhu Sankar

Ingredients needed

Moong Dal - 1/4 cup

Carrot - 3/4 - 1 cup grated

Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup finely chopped

Fresh Coconut - 1/4 cup grated

Lemon - 1 medium size

Salt to taste

For the Seasoning

Oil - 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Red Chillies - 1-2 (optional)

Asafoetida/hing - a pinch

Green chilli - 1 finely chopped

Curry leaves - a sprig

Preparations

Wash and soak moong dal (split yellow variety) for 1 hour. After 1 hour, drain the water and keep it aside.

Wash, peel the skin and grate carrots.

Grate fresh coconut and keep it aside (fresh coconut recommended).

Method

In a bowl, mix together soaked and drained moong dal, grated carrot, coriander leaves, fresh coconut and salt needed. Squeeze juice of one medium sized lemon and mix well. Taste and adjust lemon juice as you prefer.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add red chillies, hing, green chillies and curry leaves. Saute for a second and add the seasoning to the kosambari.

Mix well and serve carrot kosambari as an accompaniment with rice.

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Edit: This is what moong dal looks like. It can be found in any Indian store.