Yellow Cucumber Pickle

Yellow cucumber/ Budamakai/Dosavakaya is a small, round cucumber with crispy tart flavor. Usually used in  Andra dishes like dosavakaya pickle, pappu, pachadi. One should  develop taste for this vegetable, everyone will not like it at once.

I did not like its taste before(my sister loved it). Whenever mom made, sister used to empty the whole pickle jar all by herself. After coming to US, I have a craze of trying new dishes. One day I got to know from a friend that we get yellow cucumbers in Indian stores. Soon after hearing its name I remembered mom and sister, immediately thought of trying it once. In my next Indian store visit I made sure to buy it. Came home, called mom and asked the recipe and made this pickle. And now even I am in love with its taste. 

Hope you all will also like it.

Ingredients

• 1 Yellow Cucumber/Budamakai/Dosakaya
• 2-3 Tbsp Red Chili Powder
• 2 Tbsp Mustard Seeds Powder
• 1/2 Cup Lemon Juice
• 1/2 Tsp Methi Powder
• 1 Tsp Hing
• Salt To Taste

Method :

• Wash, peel and deseed yellow cucumber. Cut it into small cubes and transfer it to a wide bowl.

• Add rest of the ingredients(red chili powder, mustard seeds powder, methi powder, hing, lemon juice). Mix well and do a taste test.

• It can be served immediately but tastes much better if served next day.
• Will be good for up to 15 days if stored in a air tight container and kept in refrigerator.