Preparation time: 5 hours
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 2

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 2 cups finely chopped or grated southekayi (sambar cucumber)
2. 1 cup rice (I used dosa rice) or idli rava
3. 0.5 - 1 cup fresh grated coconut
4. Salt as per your taste
5. Banana leaves

Instructions for making Southe gatti or steamed cucumber dumplings:

1. Rinse the rice and drain the water completely. Keep it aside for drying (not under the sunlight). You can also use idli rava.
2. Now take banana leaves and clean it thoroughly. Next either steam it or hold it on the stove top for few seconds. This is done to avoid breaking of the leaves while folding.
3. Once the rice is dry, grind it into a powder using mixer grinder. It should be a powder, which is little coarse. Or I would say, it should be in between rava and flour. Transfer it into a container.
4. Grind the grated coconut into a fine paste using required water. Transfer it into the container, which has rice powder.
5. You have to use sambar cucumber (yellow cucumber), which is green in colour and fresh.
6. Wash and finely chop the cucumber. I usually grate the cucumber. Transfer grated cucumber into the same container, which has rice powder and ground coconut.
7. Add in salt and little sugar.
8. Give a quick mix. The batter shall have thick dropping consistency.
9. Next place a handfull of batter on one banana leaf.
10. Next fold it like a packet. Please refer the image.
11. Like this continue and finish making all the packets. Steam it for 20 minutes. Serve it hot with coconut chutney.

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