West Indian
Koshimbir (Cucumber-Peanut Curd Salad)
Koshimbir (Cucumber-Peanut Curd Salad) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 cucumber
- 1 cup plain curd
- 1/3 cup roasted peanuts
- 1 green chili
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/4 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp neutral oil
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
How to cook it
- Mix the chopped cucumber with the whisked curd, crushed roasted peanuts, finely chopped green chili, sugar, and salt in a bowl.
- Heat the oil in a small pan, add the mustard and cumin seeds, and let them crackle.
- Pour the tempering over the salad and mix gently.
- Garnish with cilantro and serve chilled alongside the thali.
Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Koshimbir (Cucumber-Peanut Curd Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Koshimbir (Cucumber-Peanut Curd Salad) carries peanuts and dairy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables, Dairy, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Koshimbir (Cucumber-Peanut Curd Salad) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on cucumber, peanut, and curd.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from West India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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