Tamarind Chutney | Best Side Dish For Ven Pongal
Tangy sweet and spicy tamarind chutney with tongue tickling taste.
This tamarind chutney is an interesting combination with ven pongal. This is a regular
side dish often served with pongal rather than kathirikai gothjju. This tastes tangy with the spiciness of the secret masala. The masala is not so unique but when combined with tamarind sauce gives excellent flavour. Originally we call this chutney as "Pachi Pulusu" in Telugu. This goes well with dosa / Idli.
If you like the tangy sour taste of tamarind, you would definitely love it. Most probably all asian countries include tamarind in their everyday cooking. Apart from the sour and tart taste, it tastes sweet. We even use the edible leaves of tamarind tree to make spice powder called "Chinthaak Podi". Soon will be posting the recipe of the podi.
Preparartion & Cooking Time:15 Minutes
YIELD : 2 -3 serves
Ingredients:
Tamarind - 1 big lemon SizeTomato - 1Small finely chopped(approx. 2 tbsp)
Curry Leaves few
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1tsp
Salt - 1/2 tbsp
For Seasoning:
Mustard Seeds -1tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1tsp
Red Chilli Broken-4-5no
Asafoetida-1tsp
Secret Masala To Grind:
Grated Coconut - 2tbsp
Green chilli - 3-4no(adjust as per spice level)
Roasted Dhal / Pootukadalai -1tbsp
Method:
- Soak tamarind pulp in one cup of water and extract the juice. Keep aside.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds and wait till it crackle. Add Cumin seeds, asafoetida, broken chillies, curry leaves one by one. Pour in the tamarind juice, turmeric powder, remaining 1/2 a cup of water, jaggery and salt. Wait until it starts to boil.
- In the meantime, coarsely grind the ingredients given under the secret masala without water.
- Now add in the ground masala to the boiling tamarind sauce. Add finely chopped tomatoes at this stage. Stir well and let it cook on low flame for few minutes or until the chutney is thicken.
- Dish out and serve this tangy spicy chutney with hot ghee oozing ven pongal.
Note:
- Adjust water accordingly, the thickness of the chutney you wish.
- This serve best for Dosa / Idli.
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31 comments :
Chutney using tamarind ??!! Yummy tangy...
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Yummy yummy chutney... bookmarked it..
Reva
super easy n yummy chuteny
sounds new to me.. looks great..
tangy yummy. thinking about tamaring my mouth waters.
love tangy flavors,yummy side dish!!
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tasty curry. will go well with a lot of dishes.
Totally agree they make an excellent chutney yum yummmmm
A tangy side dish would be great as a side dish!
Tangy and soo tasty!
Tangy delicious chutney..yummy..
looks so delectable dear :)
interesting tangy chutney, looks yummy!!!
That's a nice different side dish for pongal..
tongue tickling...
Delicious tamarind chutney I love it.
Nice and Tangy...
Tangy chutney. looks yum. happy sankranthi
My grandma used to make this, but her version is different this looks so flavorful and good too :)
Yummy and tangy chutney
tangy n yummy chutney
tangy and yummy chutney!
Yummy chutney...Love this..
very tempting..
Tasty Appetite
Inviting and tempting chutney. Easy to make.
today's recipe:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/01/aar-macher-kutti-bhaja-spicy-fried-ayer.html
I love this chutney. In the secret masala, what dhal do you use? Urad dhal?
Delicious and tangy chutney...
Thanks dear...... I used roasted gram/ channa dhal to grind masala.....also called as fried dhal
Oh is it...... I learned this recipe frm my mom. ......Coming thro' generations....
You know when my sis gave me the pongal recipe, she gave me this chutney recipe too, though she didn't mention the secret masala. I have to try your version, that might thicken it up.. THe one I tried was little runny
Yah Sumee .... you r right without secret masala the chutney will be runny... the addition of masala enhance flavour and thicken the chutney, so you need to be carefull while adding water, otherwise once again chutney will result watery....
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