Hello Foodies!

Coconut is a widely used ingredient in South Indian dishes, it gives a unique aroma and taste. Coconut chutney is a south Indian condiment that can be used with idli, dosa, vada, uttapam or any other south Indian dish. It’s like the Italian salsa.

Coconut chutney is made using fresh coconut which is easily available in the market. Once can make it simply with just coconut, green chillis and salt or can choose to enhance the flavour by adding other ingredients like chana dal (Bengal gram), ginger and tempering of mustard seeds and curry leaves. Some people also add mint to it which gives it a very refreshing taste. So you can modify it here and there as per your taste. It requires not more than 10 minutes and if you have this chutney with your south Indian food, you don’t need any other item like sambhar too. It works really well.

Let’s see how we make it.

Servings

2 Persons

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Kitchen Standing Time

15 minutes

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Ingredients

S.No.	Ingredient	Quantity
1.	Coconut	1/2 Unit
2.	Roasted Chana Dal	1 TBSP
3.	Green chillis	2 Units
4.	Ginger	Small Piece
5.	Mustard Seeds	½ TBSP
6.	Curry Leaves	5-7 Units
7.	Salt	As per taste
8.	Dried Red Chilli Whole	1 Unit
9.	Mustard Oil	1 TBSP

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Method

Step 1: Cut the coconut into small pieces and peel of the brown cover. Add to the mixer grinder.

Step 2: To the mixer, add roasted chana dal, green chillis and ginger. Add a little bit of water and give it a good mix.

Step 3: Check once and add more water if required to get a semi solid kind of consistency.

Step 4: Empty the chutney into a bowl.

Step 5: Take a tempering pan and add mustard oil. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilli to the oil.

Step 6: Add this tempering to the chutney and mix well.

Step 7: Add some salt and serve with any south Indian dish you like.

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