BENGAL GRAM AND CUCUMBER SALAD

Recipe by :  Hema Raghavendra

Ingredients:
Bengal Gram or Kadale Bele – 1/2 cup
Cucumber – 1 small
Chopped Green Chillies – 1
Chopped Coriander leaves / Cilantro
Salt
Lemon Juice – 1 tsp

Tampering Ingredients:
Oil – 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal  / White Lenthils – 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves
Red Chilly – 1

How to Prepare:
Soak the Bengal Gram/Kadale Bele in water and keep it for 2 hr. Pound the soaked Bengal gram slightly.
Wash the Cucumber; peel out the skin and chop the Cucumber.
Mix the chopped Cucumer with mashed Bengal gram.
Add chopped Green chillies, Coriander leaves, Salt and Lemon Juice and mix well.

Tampering :
Heat oil in a small frying pan; add Mustard seeds. Once Mustard seeds splutter, add Urad dal, cut Red Chillies and Curry leaves. Remove the pan from the flame once the color of Curry leaves changes.
Add this Tampering/Oggarane to the Salad and mix well.
The Bengal Gram Cucumber Kosambari Salad is now ready.