Southekayi sasive recipe | How to make southekai hasi gojju | Cucumber raita
By Latha on April 7th, 2022
Southekayi sasive or southekai hasi gojju recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Cucumber raita is a very easy and tasty side dish for rice or chapathi. It can be prepared in just 5 minutes. 2 types of side dish recipes using cucumber are explained here.
As I have mentioned in my earlier posts, sasive and thambli are curd or yoghurt based gravy recipes. Sasive is a small side dish in a multi coarse meal. Sasive is generally prepared by grinding coconut, chilli and mustard.
I have few more recipes using cucumber like cucumber idli, cucumber halbai, cucumber sambar, cucumber bolu huli and cucumber chutney.
If you are looking for more tambli or thambuli recipes then do check my coriander leaves thambli, spring onion thambli, doddapathre hasi thambuli, Shunti or ginger thambli, doddapthre thambuli, brahmi thambuli, dasavala thambuli and ginger thambuli recipes.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients for type 1: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized cucumber
- 2 red chillies
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp salt or as per your taste.
Ingredients for type 2: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized cucumber
- 1 - 2 green chillies
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/4 cup curd
- 1 tsp salt or as per your taste.
Ingredients for tempering: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/2 red chili
- 2 tsp cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
Instructions for making southekayi sasive:
- Cut the cucumber and remove the bitterness if any. Refer to the image or videdo.
- Finely chop the cucumber. Refer the video. Optionally you can peel the cucumber.
- You can also grate it using a large holed grater.
- Now for type 1, take grated coconut, red chili and mustard seeds in a mixie jar. Grind it into a fine paste by adding required water.
- Add in grated cucumber and grind it for a while.
- Transfer it into a bowl.
- Add in salt as per your taste.
- Temper it with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal and red chili.
- Now for type 2, take grated coconut, green chili and mustard seeds in a mixie jar. Grind it into a fine paste by adding required water.
- Add in grated cucumber, curd and salt. Grind it for a while.
- Transfer it into a bowl.
- Temper it with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal and red chili.
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