In both ancient and modern day cooking, cilantro has been added to garnish any food item to make it easily digestable. This tasty recipe uses cilantro as the main ingredient, and is abundant in vitamins.
Ingredients
- Cilantro – 1 small bunch (remove the stem and chop into pieces) Use only leaves
- Yellow split dal (or lentil) -¼ cup
- Red chilly – 2 or 3 (if you want the spread to be less spicy, just use 1)
- Garlic – 1 or 2 pods (cut into 4 pieces)
- Coconut – shredded 1 cup
- Onion – 1, thinly sliced
- Tamarind paste – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – 2 teapoons
- Cucumber – ½ (cut into thin wedges)
Direction
1. Heat oil in a non stick skillet, add yellow spit dal (or lentil) and cook in medium flame till it becomes golden brown.
3. Add garlic, red chilly and onion one ingredient at a time and sauté them (cook until they brown).
4. Let them cool for some time and grind them along with cilantro, coconut, salt and little water as needed. Spread is ready.
5. Apply the spread to the bread, place the cucumber as shown and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Note:
This can be used as bread spread, and as an accompaniment to chapatti and rice as well.
Add extra ½ cup of shredded coconut if you want it to be extra creamy.
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