Kachumber
Kachumber or Cachumba salad is a cool fresh Indian salad, ideal to serve as a side dish to complement the heat of spicy curry or on it's own with poppadoms. Dead easy to make - even more so if you don't want to peel the tomatoes, but I prefer to take the skin off when I make it. The recipe should include a green chile, but when I am making it to have with curry I leave the chile out. And finally the recipe should be with lime rather than lemon, but yesterday I didn't have any limes, so used lemon instead and it worked fine.
Ingredients
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1 small cucumber (or half a normal one)
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3 tomatoes
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1 salad onion
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1 green chile
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1 bunch fresh coriander
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1 lemon
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Salt and pepper
Cooking Instructions
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1
Chop the onion, cucumber and coriander and put them in a bowl. If you are using chile, seed and chop it and add too
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2
Plunge the tomatoes in boiling water for 30 seconds to loosen the skin
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3
While they are in the water squeese the lemon juice over the other ingredients
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4
Peel the tomatoes with your fingers and chop (usually kachumber recipes recommend seeding the tomatoes, but I never do)
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5
Add the tomatoes to the salad.
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6
Stir well, add salt and pepper, stir again and leave to sit for half an hour before serving. Enjoy!
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