Mom's Recipies

 

This Spicy Peanut chutney is very easy to make .This chutney tastes great as we grind the tempering here and mix it with peanut garlic paste. It tastes great with Idlis , Dosas and Upma.

Adapted from ~ VahRehVah



Ingredients :-

Peanuts / groundnuts (roasted) - 1 cup /150 gms
Garlic - 5
Chilly powder - 1½ tbsp
Tamarind juice - ¼ cup
salt to taste
water - 1/2 cup

For poppu/tadka/seasoning:
Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp
Cumin seeds - ¼ tsp
Urad daal - 2 tbsp
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
Oil-2 tbsp
Hing - A pinch

 
Method:-



Heat oil in a pan on medium flame .Add crushed garlic cook till it is slightly fried.Add roasted peanuts slightly fry.Add red chilly powder and switch off the flame.Then add tamarind juice, salt, mix this all together. Put it into the blender and make a paste. You have to add lot of water for grinding because peanuts when we make paste it really get thick.We have to make chutney into a pouring consistency.

For tempering heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, when mustard seeds splutter,reduce the flame.Add cumin seeds, Urad dal,hing, curry leaves and cook on slow flame.Roast this till Urad dal is golden in colour.Let it cool down put it into the blender make a coarse powder.

Take a bowl add peanuts garlic paste and add the tempering mixture, mix it well.

Spicy fiery Peanut Chutney is ready.

Serve this with Idli , Dosa , Upma.

This peanut chutney is a good substitute for coconut chutney. Sometimes we run out of coconut then we can immediately make this Peanut Chutney. This quick peanut chutney goes very well with idli, dosa, medu vada ,upma or uttapam.

Ingredients :-

1/2 cup peanuts /Groundnuts
1/4 cup roasted chana dal/putanaala pappu/dalia
5 green Chillies , chopped
1 or 2 tsp oil
salt as required
water as required

For Tempering/Tadka/Talimpu:

1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp urad dal(minapapappu,black gram)
10 curry leaves (optional)
A pinch of asafoetida/hing
1 whole dry red chilli




Method :-

  1.  Heat oil in a pan.
  2.  Fry the peanuts on a low flame for 3-4 minutes.
  3.   Add  few curry leaves and fry for a minute. 
  4.  Then add the roasted chana dal /Putanaala pappu and fry for 2-3 minutes on a low flame.
    Let this mixture little bit cool down. Add this mixture in a chutney grinder or a small blender.
  5.  Add in chopped green chilies and salt.
  6.  Pour some water and grind the peanut chutney to a smooth consistency.
  7.  Make the peanut chutney to medium consistency.
  8.  Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and let them splutter.
   9.  Add the urad dal and dry red  chilli and slightly saute it. When it turns golden brown  add
    curry  leaves and hing and switch off the flame.
 10.  Add this tempering to the ground Peanut Chutney.
 11.  Serve yummy peanut chutney with Idli, Dosa, Rava Dosa , Pesarattu , Medu Vada, Uttapam or Upma .