Coconut chutney

Ingredients:

• Fresh Coconut:  half (medium size)
• Split black gram: 1 teaspoon
• Mustard seed: 1half teaspoon
• Curry leaves: 10-15 leaves
• Red chili: 2 no.
• Madras onion: 2-3 no.
• Garlic: 1 flake
• Green chili: 2 no.
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Refined oil: 1 tablespoon

Preparation:

1. Take fresh coconut and break it.
2. Scarp only white portion of coconut through coconut scraper.
3. Take scraped coconut into grinding jar.
4. Grind well as chutney with help of water.
5. Slit green chili, keep aside.
6. Chop red chili, keep aside.

Method:

1. Take a wok, put mustard seed, when it sputters, add red chili and split black gram.
2.  Fry until it turns golden brown in color.
3.  Fry green chilies and curry leaves for few seconds.
4. Pour ground coconut and salt.
5. Add water as per you liking of consistency.
6. When it just starts boiling put the flame off.
7.  Stair it, wait for 5-10 minutes.

Transfer into serving bowl.and serve with upma, dosa,vada and idly.

Coconut chutney by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.