Nepali Cucumber Salad

I have never tried or tasted any Nepali food before. Anyway the event ‘Flavours of Nepal’ made me curious to search for Nepali cuisine. I found this Cucumber Salad is interesting & tried it. Really it was delicious.

Recipe source:http://jugalbandi.info/2010/02/mustard-trilogy-3-nepali-cucumber-salad/

Ingredients

1 Medium size cucumber

1 tbspn sesame seeds

½ tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp mustard seeds

2 green chili cut lengthwise

½ tspn fenugreek seeds

A pinch of turmeric powder

A pinch of chili powder

1-2 tbspn cooking oil

Salt to taste

Method

Wash & slice cucumber lengthwise.Squeeze to remove excess water.Keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan & add all ingredients other than cucumber & lime juice.

Once aromatic, toss the dressing over cucumber.

Add 1 tsp lemon juice.

Mix well & serve.

Linking with Flavours of Nepal Event started by Nayna of Simply Food

Linking with Gimme GREEN event

Sambal Eggs

Sambal egg is one of my favourite Malay dish when I eat from outside. Once I tried to cook this but I couldn’t get the correct appearance & taste. Last week I saw a linked post to my ongoing event Hot & Spicy treats from Daily-Cuppa blog. By seen the recipe, I wanted to try it again & it came out nicely.

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients (for 2 servings)

2 hardboiled eggs

Ingredients to blend together

2-3 tbspn red chili flakes (or dried chili)

1 medium size onions sliced
2-3 garlic cloves sliced

1 tsp. belachan (shrimp paste)

1 tsp. salt (or to taste)

Other ingredients

1 tsp. tamarind pulp, dissolve in 1/4 cup hot water.
1 Tbls. Sugar

2-3 Tbs. oil to fry

Method

Blend all ingredients (under blending ingredients) together & keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan & fry the eggs until golden brown. Remove & keep aside.

Then add blended ingredients to the heated oil.

Fry for about 5-6 minutes until oily appearance comes out.

Stir well over low flame and add tamarind juice and sugar. Cook for another few minutes until the mixture becomes thick.

Pour this mix over the fried eggs.

Serve hot.

This goes to my ongoing event -Hot & Spicy Treats

Linked to event -Egg Recipes

link with the event-Flavours of Malaysia