Easy and Tasty

Hi,

Today I am going to write about 2 types of chutneys that are easy to make and far different from the normal coconut chutney.

1. Coconut chutney with small onions
2. Green chillies and small onions.

Coconut Chutney with small onions.

Ingredients

Grated coconut

Red chillies 3 to 4

Small onions 4 to 5 peeled and finely chopped

Tamarind

Curry leaves

Mustard seeds for seasoning

Sesame oil

Method

Grind the coconut and red chillies with tamarind and salt and keep it aside.

Preheat a pan and add sesame oil and season with mustard and curry leaves and finally add chopped small onions and fry them for few minutes and put it on the already prepared chutney.

This chutney is little different from ordinary coconut chutney that we prepare and the essence of the taste lies in the finely chopped small onions.

Green Chillies and Small onion.

This is really simple and very easy to prepare. But it is little hot and spicy.

Just grind 4 to 5 green chillies with salt and 2 to 3 small onions and no seasoning is required.

This one has a hot and tangy taste.

The result is best if we use mortar mix to crush the ingredients.

Tit Bits...

Few words about art of cooking

Cooking is an art. Methods and ingredients are always available but the taste varies from person to person depending upon the proportion we use and the mode of cooking,heating methods,utensils we use and even method of cutting of vegetables play vital role in getting the superior taste.

For making chutney and for grinding small amount of ingredients we use mixer grinder but taste is exceptionally superior if we can use our old traditional stone grinding methods.In tamil we call as Ammi. The equivalent we can get in most of the stores across the world is the mortar mix used for crushing herbs. We can substitute this for the traditional ammi. The difference between both method of grinding is the way in which the ingredients get mixed up. In mixer all the ingredients gets crushed uniformly under higher voltage and brings down the taste considerably if we grind the ingredients step by step, instead of putting all the ingredients at once and use half blade method(giva it a fast whirl, stop it & do it again) of grinding we can get a much better taste.