Peanut Onion Chutney | Idli, dosa side dish
Ingredients
- Peanuts- 1/2 cup
- Onion small- 1 nos.
- Red chillies- 3 nos.
- Garlic cloves- 2 to 3 nos.
- Cumin seeds- 3/4 tsp
- Tamarind- Marble sized
- Salt- 1 tsp
- Cooking oil- 1 tsp
To temper
- Cooking oil- 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 tsp
- Split black gram lentils- 1/2 tsp
- Broken red chilly- 1 no.
- Curry leaves- Few
Instructions
Preparation
- Peel off the onion and chop it in to medium sized chunks.
Method
- Take peanuts in a pan and dry roast them still they shed their skin off. It may take few minutes. Let it cool down, then crush them between your palm to remove the skin off.
- Heat a pan adding oil, onion, red chillies and garlic cloves. Roast them in medium flame and switch off.
- Add roasted onion, garlic, red chillies, peanuts, cumin, salt and tamarind in a mixer and grind them together to little coarse puree. Add water as needed.
- Yummy peanut onion chutney is ready to serve with dosa and idli.
Notes
- You can use the roasted peanuts with skin too. In that case the color of the chutney would differ.
- You can skip garlic, if you don't like the flavor in chutney.
- While grinding the chutney, add water as per the desired consistency.