About:

This recipe is from my friend Nilima Rao, who is upcoming singer. Thank you dear for such a lovely and refreshing recipe just modified it to make a soup recipe using regular cucumber.

This is perfect for summer with a cool, refreshing and soothing soup with combination of yogurt, mint and ginger.

Health benefits:

Cucumber seeds are slightly diuretic, which helps promote urine flow and stimulates the kidneys to flush wastes and fatty deposits from the body. Diuretics can act to dehydrate the body, but cucumbers’ high moisture content makes this of no concern.

Cucumber seeds are also used holistically to treat tapeworm infestations and are reputed to have a regenerative effect on the skin.

So enjoy this soothing soup with bread

Yields: 2-3 servings

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

Cucumber seeds-from one cucumber

Natural yogurt-2cups/500ml

Green chillies-2-3 (Can reduce to make it less spicy)

Pepper corns-5

Mint leaves-a handful

Coriander leaves-a handful

Ginger-1/2inch

Desiccated coconut-1/4cup

Salt- as per taste

Olive oil-2tbsp+for drizzling

Procedure:

For seeding-rinse cucumber, use a knife to remove round caps at the ends, slice the cucumber in half lengthwise, hold the cucumber half in one hand and a teaspoon in the other, use a spoon to carefully scrape out the seeds and collect in a bowl.

Combine cucumber seeds, coconut, mint leaves, green chillies, pepper corns, ginger, and fresh coriander blend until smooth then add yogurt, peanut oil and pulse for few seconds until blended well.

Transfer this to bowl, drizzle some peanut oil and serve.

Note:

Can alternatively use olive oil/any oil in place of peanut oil

Can include cucumber pulp as well

As a vote of thanks to the lovely upcoming singer here is a link to her Sochana hain kya video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ck7itlA30

You can follow her band thru their Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/raknnili