Showing posts with label CHUTNIES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHUTNIES. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 25, 2010



Ingredients:-

Toor dal : 1/2 rice cooker cup
Dry red chillies : 3
Garlic : 1 pod
Cumin seeds : 1/2 tspn
Tamarind : 2-3 pods
Coconut: 2 tspn
Salt : as required

Ingredients for Talimpu:-

Oil : 2 tspn
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tspn
Mustard seeds : 1/4 tspn
Asafoetida : pinch of
Curry leaves : 1 sprig

Preparation:-
  • Heat a pan and add 1 tspn oil , add toor dal , cumin seeds , dry red chillies and fry on medium flame till dal turns its color and then switch off stove. Add coconut , garlic pieces and enough salt. Let this cool.
  • Soak tamarind.
  • Grind fried items and tamarind with little amount of water.
  • Put talimpu with the above listed ingredients and mix with chutney.
  • serve it with hot rice and ghee.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009



Ingredients :-

Bitter gourds : 2 medium size
Onions : 2
Tomatoes : 2
Green chillies : 6
Garlic : 3 pods (1+1+1)
Salt : 1/4 tspn + 1/2tspn
Sugar : 1 tspn
Coriander seeds : 2tspns
Sesemam seeds : 1/2tspn
Coconut : 1 Tbspn
Tamarind : black berry size
Coriander leaves : 5 sprigs
Oil : 4 tspns (2+2)

Ingredients For Tempering :-

Oil : 1 tspn
Dry red chillies : 2
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tspn
Mustard seeds : 1/4 tspn
Asafoetida : 1/8 tspn
Curry leaves : 1 sprig

Preparation :-
  • Chop bitter gourd as fine as possible. Chop onions , tomatoes , green chillies and garlic pods.
  • Heat a pan add 2 tspns of oil and when hot add 1 chopped garlic pod.
  • Next add finely chopped bitter gourd , add 1/4 tspn salt and fry till golden brown . Then add sugar and fry for 5 more minutes and switch off stove.(Dont worry adding sugar doesnt make your chutney sweet it only reduces the bitterness of bitter gourd)
  • Heat another pan and dry fry coriander seeds and sesemam seeds. Once done add green chillies and fry till done . Transfer them into a mixcy container .
  • In same pan add 2 tspns oil and when hot add 1 garlic pod , onions and fry till done .
  • Then add tomatoes and tamarind and fry till mushy . Switch off stove and let this cool.
  • In mixcy container add coconut and 1/2 tspn salt and grind along with the green chilly mixture to a coarse paste .
  • Then to the mixcy container add onion tomato mixture , 1 garlic pod and coriander leaves and grind to a chutney consistency without adding water.
  • Transfer the grinded chutney to a serving bowl and to this add fried bitter gourd and mix well.
  • Make tempering by adding a teaspoon oil and when hot add dry red chillies , cumin and mustard seeds . Then add asafoetida and curry leaves. Switch off stove and pour this tempering on chutney and mix well .
  • Serve this with hot rice and ghee.

Friday, March 20, 2009



Actually my mother in law prepares a wounderful chutney by name " pachi chintakaya pandiri dosakaya pachadi" . Pandiri dosakaya is one variety of cucumber which will be long in size , looks like green cucumber /keera but it is big in size with yellow and green mixed colour. She will chop cucumber into small pieces and adds some salt on it . After half an hour she will squeeze the juice from cucumber and then add that pieces to freshly grinded tamarind chutney . This will taste awesome but here i did not get pandiri dosakayalu , so i just did with yellow cucumber.


Preparation :-


  • Take 1 yellow cucumber , peelout its skin , deseed and cut into small pieces .




  • Take 15 medium size tender tamarinds (adjust according to their sourness) ,wash them and cut them into pieces.




  • Heat a pan and dry fry 3 heaped tablespoons of peanuts and when it cools remove the skin and transfer them to a mixcy container.



  • Heat the same pan add 1 tspn oil , fry 7-8 green chillies , add 1 &1/2 tspn coriander seeds and 1 tspn cumin seeds . fry them for 2 mins and transfer them into same mixcy container.




  • Heat the same pan add 2 tspns oil , do talimpu by adding 1/2 tspn urad dal , 2 broken dry red chillies , 1/2 tspn each cumin and mustard seeds , pinch of methi powder , sprinkle hing and add few curry leaves . Now add chopped cucumber pieces and fry for 5 mins and switchoff stove. ( i dont like to add raw cucumber to chutney so i just sauted them till half done and mixed with chutney . But according to actual procedure u need not fry u can just add raw cucumber pieces to grinded chutney, so its ur wish.)



  • Grind the contents in the mixcy adding salt & 1/4 tspn turmeric .



  • Once they are grinded add chopped tamarind pieces , 2 sprigs of coriander leaves & 1 garlic pod . Grind them nicely . If u want add little amount of water while grinding.





  • Transfer grinded chutney to a bowl and now add cucumber & talimpu mixture to chutney and mix nicely.



  • Serve this with hot rice and ghee and have a wounderful andhra meal.