When we cook “tasty” food for our loved ones, the best reward we get is the happiness and joy seen in their eyes after the delicious meal. Cooking should not come out of compulsion, because tasty food is a result of interest, love, joy and satisfaction that are needed along with the other ingredients of the dish.

BEETROOT CHUTNEY

Ingredients:
  • Beetroot – ½ from a medium sized
  • Big Onion chopped – ¼ cup
  • Garlic – 4 pieces
  • Coriander Seeds – 2 table spoons
  • Cumin seeds – 2 table spoons
  • Dry chillies –  3 to 4
  • Tamarind - A small piece

To Temper

  • Oil
  • Mustard seeds
  • Urad dhal
  • Bengal Gram (chana dal)
  • Curry leaves 
  • Asafoetida

Preparation

  • Chop the beetroot into small pieces
  • Heat some oil in a frying pan
  • Add chopped onions, garlic and dry chillies to it
  • Saute for sometime and then add the cumin seeds, coriander seeds and tamarind piece
  • Fry until the fresh smell of cumin seeds and coriander vanish
  • Finally, add the chopped beetroot
  • Add some salt to taste
  • Fry until the beetroot gets cooked
  • Now, let the fried ingredient mix to cool down to room temperature
  • Grind the mix with little water in a mixer grinder until it gets the consistency of chutney
  • Temper with mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram, curry leaves & asafoetida

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