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Updated 10 Apr, 2023

Mangalore Cucumber Curry:

Name: Mangalore Cucumber Curry:
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 1 Coloured cucumber; Salt; 1 tsp Red chili powder; 1 bowl Coconut (fresh ); 2 to 3 Red Chillies (Red Byadagi chilies); 1 Tamarind (goose berry size); ½ tsp Turmeric Powder; 1 tbsp Coconut oil; 1 tsp Mustard; 1 Red Chillies; 2 sprigs Curry leaves; 10 cloves Garlic (crushed)

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South Indian

About Mangalore Cucumber Curry:

Traditionally we call this as Sauthe kai Huli menasina Koddel. Literal translation of this is, Sauthe kai means sambar cucumber, Huli is tamarind, menasu is chilli, koddel is sambar or curry.

It is basically sambar cucumber or coloured cucumber curry with raw masala of fresh coconut flavoured with non-roasted masala.

Here we only use fresh coconut, Byadagi red chillies, tamarind as a main ingredient and after boiling garlic seasoning is added by using coconut oil.To get authentic taste, one should use coconut oil and fresh grated coconut for this curry.

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Recipe Time & More

Prep Time20 minutes mins

Cook Time30 minutes mins

Total Time50 minutes mins

Served AsDinner Lunch

Recipe TasteSalty Tangy

Calories - 55 kcal

Servings - 5

Ingredients

▢ 1 Coloured cucumber
▢ Salt
▢ 1 tsp Red chili powder
▢ 1 bowl Coconut fresh
▢ 2 to 3 Red Chillies Red Byadagi chilies
▢ 1 Tamarind goose berry size
▢ ½ tsp Turmeric Powder

For seasoning:

▢ 1 tbsp Coconut oil
▢ 1 tsp Mustard
▢ 1 Red Chillies
▢ 2 sprigs Curry leaves
▢ 10 cloves Garlic crushed

Instructions

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Wash Mangalore/Coloured/sambar cucumber. Chop off 2 ends, slice in to 4 pieces and remove inner core (seed part) and chop into bite size pieces.
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Check now for the taste. If it is bitter in taste, soak the pieces in plain water for 5 minutes, discard the water and proceed. If cucumber tastes good, no need to soak in water and you can directly proceed in cooking.
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Cook these pieces in sufficient amount of water. Add salt and red chilli powder as well. In the meantime, grind masala by putting coconut, tamarind, red chillies and turmeric.
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When cucumber is cooked, add ground masala adjust the consistency and boil. When mixture boils nicely, switch off the gas.

Recipe Notes

To maintain authentic taste,

Use fresh coconut, Coconut oil.
Retain outer skin of garlic and crush.
Inner core or seed can used in couple of recipes.
Core is high in proteins and very nutritious.

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shrikripa uppangala

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5 Comments

Saurav Agarwal

June 20, 2021 / 4:00 pm Log in to Reply

Looks so flavorful! Thanks for posting.
Akshit Dhiman

June 24, 2018 / 12:10 pm Log in to Reply

Such an enticing dish! Thanks for the recipe.
shrikripa uppangala

June 7, 2018 / 12:00 am Log in to Reply

Thank you Kriti
Kirti Misra

June 6, 2018 / 12:00 am Log in to Reply

excellent recipe!
Hasee Saifi

January 2, 2018 / 10:44 am Log in to Reply

Looks so flavorful! Thanks for posting.