Tomato chutney | Thakkali chutney recipe
Tomato chutney or thakkali chutney is a simple south Indian side dish for dosa, idly, pongal and adai. This is a very quick recipe made only with tomatoes. There is another version of tomato chutney adding onions which is again side dish for idly dosa items.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
To saute and grind:
- 5 ripe tomatoes
- 5 red chillies
- 1 tsp gram dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- ½ tsp salt as required
To season:
- 4 tsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp jeera and cumin
- Few curry leaves
- 1 pinch hing optional
Instructions
Recipe:
- In a pan, heat a tsp of oil, add gram dal and urad dal.
- Saute them nicely to brown color, stir continuously.
- Add chopped tomatoes and red chillies.
- Cook them in the oil until they become soft and mushy.
- Add the salt required for chutney, this helps in cooking tomatoes fast.
- Switch off and let the mixture cool down.
- Grind into a paste without adding water.
- No need to grind roasted dal separately. Grind everything together.
- Heat the same pan again with remaining two tbsp of oil for seasoning.
- Add mustard and jeera seeds.
- Wash and add few curry leaves.
- Pour the ground tomato chutney mixer into the kadai.
- Mix everything together with the seasoning, saute well.
- Start cooking again by stirring continuously. You can see the chutney changing into deep red color.
- Keep in medium flame, close with lid for five mins. Stir once or twice in between.
- After few minutes, open lid, see the oil separates and floats on top.
- Switch off and serve with dosas, idly, adai, uthappam or Pongal.
Notes
Tips/notes: 1) Don’t avoid cooking the tomato paste again. 2) Cook in gingelly oil to get extra taste. 3) Try to use fresh and fully ripe tomatoes.
Nutrition
Calories: 100kcal
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