Southekai tambuli recipe | How to make cucumber tambli | Southekayi thambli
By Latha on March 12th, 2025
Southekai tambuli or cucumber tambli recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Southekayi thambli is very easy to prepare with very minimum ingredients like cucumber, coconut, green chilli, curd and a simple tempering. This cucumber raita is very soothing, comforting and tastes good with rice.
You can prepare this southekayi tambuli in very less time and it is a perfect recipe for the summer. I have used green chilli in this recipe, which can be replaced with roasted cumin and black pepper. Or you can include cumin in the tempering as well. I have posted more cucumber recipes like cucumber idli, cucumber halbai, cucumber sambar, cucumber bolu huli, cucumber mosaru bajji, southekai mosaru palya 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 southekai tambli recipe, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 medium sized cucumber
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 1 - 2 green chillies
- 3/4 cup thick buttermilk or curd
- Salt as per your taste
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 tsp cooking oil
- 1 red chili
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- Few curry leaves
- Big pinch of asafoetida
Instructions for making southekai tambli:
- Rinse and chop the cucumber.
- Take the chopped cucumber in a mixie jar. Add coconut and green chillies.
- Add the salt as per taste.
- Add in required water and grind it into a fine paste.
- Add in curd and pulse it for few times.
- Transfer it into a container and add the required water.
- Prepare the tempering using oil, red chilli, mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Add it to the tambuli. Give it a quick mix. Adjust the consistency if needed.
- Serve it with hot steaming rice.
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