Indian Cucumber and Tomato Salad for I ♥ Cooking Club

The theme for May's spotlight dish at I Heart Cooking Clubs is Indian cuisine.  My first thought was Tandoori chicken or a curry dish but I went with a simple salad.  Diana Henry's recipe and column is posted at The Telegraph so I grabbed it there. 

She says this looks like an ordinary salad but it's fresh and punchy.  Must be the chilli and cumin.  Certainly smells good when you are heating the cumin.

We had plenty of lime on hand for the G & T hour.   Really need to cut back on those but it's a refreshing hot weather, patio kinda drink :-)

Indian cucumber and tomato salad 

6 red tomatoes, chopped into small pieces

   1 cucumber, peeled and diced

  4 radishes, cut into matchsticks

     ¼ red onion, very finely chopped

      torn leaves from 8 sprigs mint

    15g (½oz) coriander leaves, very roughly chopped

    2 tbsp lime juice

     1½ tbsp olive oil

       1 small green chilli, halved, deseeded and very finely chopped

      1½ tsp cumin seeds

  plain natural yogurt for drizzling

Easy Toss Together

Put everything except the cumin seeds and yogurt into a bowl. Toast the cumin seeds in a dry frying-pan for about a minute – you should be able to really smell their aroma – and throw these in. Mix everything and season. Drizzle with a little plain yogurt and serve.

This is a Diana Henry recipe printed in The Telegraph.  I wanted to get this linked with Deb in time for next week's Souper Sunday as I will be camping and probably unable to post!

Sharing with I Heart Cooking Clubs and Deb at Kahakai for Souper Sunday.