Tomato chutney

Ingredients: 

Tomatoes – 5 roughly chopped 

Onion – 1 big roughly chopped 

Garlic – 10 

Red chilli powder – 2 table spoon or more 

Curry leaves - few 

Poppy seeds – 1 table spoon 

Cashew nuts – 10 

Cinnamon – 1 

Cardamom – 1 

Star anise - 1 

Salt – as per taste 

Oil – 150 ml 

Preparation:

Soak poppy seeds and cashew nuts in water for about 30 mins.
Grind tomatoes into puree, and grind onion, poppy seeds, cashew nuts and garlic into fine paste.


Heat a cooker (use long cooker to avoid spaterring), add oil and temper with cinnamon, cardamom and star anise, reduce the flame and then add chilli powder, after that increase the flame add grinded pastes immediately mix it, add curry leaves, salt then boil well . 


Then slow down the flame and boil it till oil separates. Stir occasionally.


Serve with idly, dosa and chapathi.

Coriander chutney

Simple and easy coriander chutney

Ingredients:

For 4 members

A bunch of coriander leaves – roughly chopped

Red chilli – 3

Green chilli - 2

Small onion – 10 to 15

Tomato – 2

Curry leaves – few

Salt – as per taste

Tamarind – 1 small piece

Oil – 5 spoons

Mustard seeds for tempering

Here I tried a small amount of chutney …

Preparation:

Heat a pan add 2 spoons of oil in it, and then add onion, curry leaves and tamarind saute it for a while.

Then add both chillies and tomatoes cook till tomatoes become mashy, Add salt in it.

Turn off the flame and add coriander bunch in it mix well in the pan heat.

Let it cool and grind it into a paste, temper with oil, mustard, curry leaves, Mix well.

Serve with hot idly, dosa.