Cucumber Salad (Vegan)

iSaltPepper: Cucumber Salad (Vegan)

Ingredients

1. Cucumbers - (1 big or 2 small)
2. Crushed (or coarse powder of)  roasted unsalted peanuts - 2 tablespoons
3. Coriander Powder - 2 teaspoons
4. Cumin Powder - 1 teaspoon
5. Green chillies -2 (Optional)
6. Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
7. Oil - 1 tablespoon
8. Salt - As per your taste
9. Sugar - 1/2 teaspoon
10. Coriander - 1 tablespoon

Procedure

1. Wash and peel cucumbers.
2. Cut cucumber in small square pieces. Take in a bowl.
3. Add crushed peanuts, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, and sugar.
4. Cut green chillies in small pieces.
5. In small pan heat oil, once it is hot add mustard seeds and green chillies. Fry chillies for 1 minute, remove the pan from heat.
6. Pour oil with mustard seeds and chillies on cucumber mixture.
7. Mix well.
8. Garnish with coriander.

Simple Chicken Rice

Ingredients

1. Rice - 1 cup
2. Chicken - 250gm.
3. Onions -2
4. Tomato -1
5. Ginger - 1 inch
6. Garlic - 4/5 cloves
7. Mint - small bunch
8. 1cm Cinnamon stick
9. Black pepper powder - 1 pinch
10. Oil - 2 tablespoons
11. Salt 
12. Paprika / red chilli powder 
13. Garam Masala - 1 teaspoon  (optional)
14. Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon

Procedure

1. Wash and soak rice in water for 30 mins.
2. Wash chicken, drain water and marinate it with a little salt, chilli powder and lemon juice. Keep aside. 
3. Cut onions and tomato into very small pieces.
4. Make a ginger-garlic paste.
5. Wash and finely chop mint and coriander.
6. Take a pan, heat oil.
7. Add a cinnamon stick and onion in the oil.
8. Fry till onion becomes translucent.
9. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry.
10. Add chopped tomato and fry till tomatoes are cooked properly.
11. Add chilli powder as per your taste, black pepper powder and garam masala. (Adding garam masala is optional).
12. Mix it well.
13. Now add chicken pieces and stir well so that chicken pieces are covered with onion-tomato-masala.
14. Add salt as per your taste, add a half cup of water, cover pan with a lid and let the chicken cook for 5-7 minutes.
15. Drain water from the rice, add rice in half-cooked chicken.
16. Add mint leaves. Mix everything well.
17. Add some water (till the level of water is 1 cm more than rice in the pan).
18. Cover and let the rice cook slowly for 7-8 minutes.
19. Switch off the gas, keep the lid on for 5 more minutes.
20. Simple chicken rice is ready.