Red Coconut Chutney

This is a simple and yummy side dish. We need only few ingredients to make this good chutney. It goes very well with Idli, Dosa, Pongal, Upma, Adai, Idiyappam… 

Ingredients

Grated Coconut – 1 Cup

Dry Red Chilli – 5

Peeled Garlic – 5 Pods

Salt to taste

Tamarind – a blueberry sized ball

Roasted Gram – 1 tsp

To Temper

Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp

Urad Dhal – ½ tsp

Hing – a pinch

Broken Dry Red Chilli – 2

Curry Leaves – few

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Sesame Oil – 2 tsp

Method

Heat 1 tsp of oil in a pan, add garlic cloves, dry red chilli and roasted gram, then fry for a min. Once it done, transfer it into the blender.

In the same pan, add the grated coconut and fry well.  Now add the tamarind pulp and then switch off the flame. Let it cool down and transfer it into the blender and grind it as fine paste, then add it into serving bowl.

Heat remaining oil in a pan, add the tempering ingredients one by one and fry for a min and transfer this into chutney. Serve with hot steamed idli or dosa.