Recipe: Appetizing Sig's Creamy Cucumber Curry

Sig's Creamy Cucumber Curry.

You can have Sig's Creamy Cucumber Curry using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sig's Creamy Cucumber Curry

1. Prepare of curry.
2. It's 75 grams of lentils of choice out of can, drained.
3. It's 500 grams of cucumber (or / and zucchini(courgette) seeded and cut into 1 inch pieces.
4. It's 3 of green or 1 red chilli seeded and chopped.
5. You need 1 can of coconut milk.
6. You need 1 of or two pinches of turmeric, garam masala, salt and curry powder to taste. (optional),.
7. You need of ghee.
8. You need 10 of curry leaves, torn or crushed.
9. Prepare 2 tsp of black mustard seeds, heated until seeds pop.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of ghee (clarified butter).

Sig's Creamy Cucumber Curry step by step

1. wash and drain lentils..
2. pour 1/2 can coconut milk and 1 and a half cup of water in pan to simmer, add the lentils cook for 12 minutes, blend down if you like to a creamy sauce.
3. add the chopped chilli and sliced cucumber .cook for 15minutes.
4. in pan heat ghee add mustard seeds and curry leaves until seeds pop ,add to the cucumber,.
5. prepare your rice of choice , I make turmeric or safron rice .I use Basmati rice..
6. add rest of coconut milk to cucumber , cook curry for about 10 to 15 minutes until sauce has thickened a little..
7. if using , season with salt , garam masala ,turmeric and currypowder. this will serve 4 as a light lunch or 2 as a main meal.
8. if you leave this to stand for a few hours and gently reheat but not boil all the flavours will be a little bit more intense, just a different experience..
9. you can also blitz it down and serve as cucumber soup with a kick ..