Recipe- Quick And Easy Peanut Chutney

Peanut Chutney is a delicious and healthy accompaniment to serve with snacks like Idli, Dosa ,Uttapam and with many fried and steamed snacks . Usually peanut chutney is made using tomatoes, red chilies ,coconut and tamarind depending on individual choice and preferences.

Now we all are in Lock down situation and many ingredients are not easily available now a days . Whenever we make south Indian snacks and tiffins we usually prefer making coconut chutney but now coconut is not easily available so I am making different chutneys without using coconut ,which goes very well with Idli, dosa and many snacks I usually make at home.

Ingredients

1 cup Peanuts / Moongphali
4 Green chilies/Hari Mirch
1.5 tsp Ginger / Adrak chopped
1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
To taste Salt / Namak
2 tsp Lemon juice

Tempering

1.5 tsp Cooking Oil
1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai
1/2 tsp White lentil/urad daal
Pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
2 Dried Red Chili, Whole

Method

* Add peanuts in a pan and dry roast on low flame till they turn slight golden and few start crackling.

* Remove the roasted peanuts from the pan and let them cool down completely.

* Now rub the peanuts to remove the skin. Discard the peeled red skin and keep the peanuts in a separate plate.(this step of removing the peanut skin is optional)

* In a mixer jar add the roasted peanuts, salt,cumin,chopped green chilies ,ginger, few curry leaves, lemon juice and some water and grind to make a smooth paste.(the quantity of water depend on the consistency of chutney you want )

* Take out the prepared chutney in a bowl.

Tadka-

* Heat oil in small pan and add mustard, and white lentil. when mustard start crackling then add asafoetida, curry leaves and the whole red chilies.

* Add the tempering in the chutney and mix.

* Keep refrigerated and it easily stays well for a week.

* Serving- serve with Idli, Dosa, uttapam or any fried or steamed snack of your choice.