Recipes
Karuveppilai Chutney Recipe
Prep Time | 5 minutes |
Cook Time | 5 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 1 cup curry leaves or kadi patta
- 1 gram tsp urad dal/blackskinned
- 1 tsp mustard seeds (rai or sarson)
- tsp ½cumin seeds/jeera
- inch ½ginger/adrak
- 1 or 2 green chilies/hari mirch
- cup ½grated coconut
- 1 tbsp roasted chana dal optional
- pinch aof asafoetida/hing
- 2 tbsp Oil
- salt as required
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Instructions
- rinse and dry the curry leaves or kadi patta with a clean kitchen towel.
- heat oil in a frying pan. then add mustard seeds and urad dal.
- allow the mustard seeds to pop and the urad dal to get a reddish brown.
- add the cumin seeds. then add the ginger, green chilies and curry leaves.
- stir and fry the leaves with continuous stirrings till they become slightly crisp.
- don't brown them as this would make the chutney bitter.
- let this mixture cool down.
- then in a chutney grinder, add the curry leaves mixture with some salt and water.
- also add the grated coconut and roasted chana dal.
- you can make a thick chutney or a chutney with medium consistency. so add water and salt accordingly.
- grind all the ingredients to a smooth chutney.
- pour in a serving bowl and serve the curry leaves chutney with upma, pakora, idli, dosa or medu vada or any snack.