Kachumber (cucumber & tomato salad)

May be few of you can relate to me when I say this – I hate coking for myself. The one common logic that’s applied is, if you are passionate about cooking enough to blog about it constantly, then how can you hate cooking. Period. I dunno! When it comes to making anything for myself, I can be the most laziest bum around. My better half will run away at the sight of whatever I throw in if  only I have to eat it! Its so boring, what else can I say. For a long while, I was content with pasta – but it can get very monotonous, don’t you think? Sometimes, I made use of canned beans to make myself a burger. At times when I am in the middle of my work, to go and cook something  can really get frustrating. (I work from home). Most of my kitchen disasters happen then since I keep something on the stove and forget about it in the middle of breaking my head over some code. Then the new and improved version of me arrived – where I started taking care of balancing my meals which made it almost hard to keep up my lethargic attitude.

That’s when I started making simple adjustments – Couscous, Semolina, Brown rice pilaf’s, savory wholegrain bread pudding , soups, salads – started making their way into my lunch plate. They were v simple, got done in a jiffy and I could still afford to be my lazy self But most of the time, they lacked that color and depth in flavors, I so needed. That’s when this salad started making its regular way into my table. My mom has always been making this (but sliced thinly not chopped this way)- but only last year or so did I come to know that it actually has a name – its called Kachumber.

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