Cucumber Kosambari

Cucumber Kosambari also known as southekayi kosambari or kosumalli is a low-calorie and healthy south Indian style salad made with cucumber and moong dal. This delicious vegan salad is usually prepared on special occasions and festivals in Karnataka.

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Kosambari salad is an easy and quick dish prepared using soaked split green gram, cucumber, green chillies, lemon juice and seasoned with mustard seeds and curry leaves. A traditional Karnataka festive thali is incomplete without kosambari.

Check out more cucumber recipes on the blog: cucumber raita and cucumber tomato corn salad.

Variations and substitutions

You could use chana dal instead of moong dal for a change.

Feel free to add toasted peanuts or fried gram for extra crunch.

Add grated carrot to this kosambari salad recipe for visual appeal. Feel free to vary the quantities of ingredients to suit your taste buds.

Ingredients

For salad

Split Green Gram/ Moongdal: 1 cup

Cucumber: ⅓ cup, finely chopped

Coconut: ¼ cup (fresh/frozen), grated

Green Chilli: 1, chopped

Lemon Juice: ½ lime

Coriander Leaves: 2 tbsp, chopped

Salt: as required

For tadka

Oil: 2 tsp

Mustard: ½ tsp

Curry Leaves: Few

Red Chilli: 1, broken

How to make kosambari?

Wash and soak moongdal in warm water for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes drain the water off the dal and transfer it to a bowl, add cucumber, ½ chopped green chilli, lemon juice, grated coconut, coriander leaves, salt.

Mix until well combined.

For seasoning heat oil in a pan, add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds, red chilli and curry leaves, remove from heat and add it to prepared kosambari.

Healthy and tasty south Indian salad is ready to serve.

Notes

If you prefer to serve this lentil and cucumber salad later on then add salt just before serving to make sure kosambari remains crunchy.

Add/Reduce chillies as per your preferred spice levels.

If you like this simple and healthy salad, you might also like carrot kosambari, moong sprouts salad, simple chickpea salad, watermelon salad, onion salad and mango avocado salad 

More Karnataka Special Recipes

Instant pot bisi belebath: Delicious pot meal made of rice, lentils, vegetables and a special spice blend. 

Tomato bath: Flavourful rice dish made with tomato, coconut, herbs and spice-based ground masala.

Bisibele bath masala: An essential spice blend used to make the authentic dish Bisi bele bath.

Belgaum kunda: North Karnataka dish is made by reducing and curdling the milk and cooking with caramalised sugar.

Kashaya: an ayurvedic beverage that keeps the body warm and healthy during winter. It is an excellent hot drink to soothe cold and flu. 

Masala puri chaat: Most fascinating street-side snack with almost iconic status in the southern region of India.

Appe: Bite-sized dumplings that are crisp outside and soft inside and tastes delicious that get ready in 15 minutes.

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