Summer is almost here and if you end up with lot of cucumbers either from garden or store and tired of salad, sandwiches here’s 1 more idea. Cook it with spices. Here’s my recipe:

• Heat oil and crack few mustard seeds and methi seeds.
• Add chopped garlic and sauté for few seconds.
• Add chopped cucumber. Remove skin if it’s too thick.
• Add turmeric, red chili powder, cumin-coriander powder and salt. Mix well.
• Add some crushed raw peanuts. It will get cooked with cucumber. If you have roasted peanut , then add at the end when cucumber is all cooked.
• Garnish with cilantro leaves.
• Makes a good side dish to go with roti.
• Enjoy!

Bitter gourd has lot of benefits and amazingly older ppl don’t mind eating them. They have been used to eating it. Most of us don’t eat now a days. Lot of ppl don’t even know what bitter taste is like. But when Indians get diabetics, they start using it. It’s a good vegetable to include in diet for it’s bitter flavor. Try few times to start liking it. Here’s how I have been cooking and it’s turning out good. You can use Indian bitter gourd too.

• Use coconut oil to cook this. After heating oil, add some fennel seeds which are sweet.
• Add chopped bitter gourd. I remove seeds. You can also add chopped potatoes . Add dry spices and salt.
• Once cooked , add sliced onion and cook until onion is little cooked . Won’t take too long.
• If I add potatoes, I don’t use onions. If no potatoes then add onions.
• Chinese variety is more like squash with little bitter flavor.
• You can also cook and put it in omelette.
• Enjoy !

Most of us eat snow peas in Chinese , Thai food and may be only at restaurant. But we can make Indian style curry out of it at home or you can just stir fry it for a side dish.Here’s how I made it and it’s so quick.

• Had some green onions left so sauted in olive oil. But before that did mustards seeds, cumin seeds seasoning.
• Add snow peas after washing , cleaning and removing top, bottom and sides. 
• Add ginger, garlic paste and dry spices, salt.
• Let it cook little bit covered and then add chopped tomatoes. Cook few more mins and that’s it.
• You can also add potatoes , any beans like peas, cowpeas to it too.
• There’s absolutely no need to use pressure cooker for this. We Indians are so used of pressure cooker that everything just goes in. 
• If you don’t like Indian spices then just sauté it in olive oil with some chopped garlic and keep it crunchy. I think it will taste good.
• Enjoy !