Monday, April 18, 2011

Onion-Peanut chutney


This chutney tastes awesome with idli/dosa especially,rava idli.

Ingredients:
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  • Peanuts / groundnuts - 1 cup
  • onion - 1 big
  • garlic - 4 pods
  • curry leaves - 4 Sprigs
  • til/sesame seeds(white) - 1 tsp
  • tomato - 1 medium sized( bangalore variety)
  • green chillies - 3
  • red chillies - 2
  • oil - 2 tsp
  • mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • split urad dal - 1 tsp
  • tamarind - 1 inch piece(can add little more as per taste)
  • salt - to taste
Method:
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  • Dry roast til and peanuts on a low flame.Set aside to cool and remove the skin of peanuts.
  • Chop onions,green chillies and garlic.
  • Heat 1 tsp of oil,add onions,garlic,curry leaves and saute till the raw smell goes off.
  • Add green chillies and chopped tomato and saute for another 3 min.
  • Switch off the flame.Add the tamarind into the kadai and set aside to cool.
  • Add the above ingredients in a mixer and grind it.(just pulse twice or thrice)
  • Add the roasted peanuts,til ,salt to the ground mixture and grind again into a fine paste with little water.
  • Temper with mustard seeds,curry leaves and split urad dal.

Serve with rava idli.

1 comment:

GEETHA ACHAL said...

Love the taste of peanuts with onions & tomato..

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