Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 3 medium sized tomatoes
2. 1 big onion
3. 2 - 3 cloves of garlic
4. 1 - 2 green chili
5. 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
6. A big pinch of turmeric powder
7. Marble sized jaggery (optional)
8. Little tamarind (optional)
9. Salt as per your taste
10. 2 tsp cooking oil

Ingredients for tempering:

1. 2 tbsp cooking oil
2. 1 red chili
3. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
4. 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
5. 1/2 tsp urad dal
6. 4 - 5 curry leaves

Instructions for making tomato onion chutney:

1. Chop garlic, onion and tomato.
2. Heat 2 tsp of oil in a frying pan and roast the chopped garlic.
3. Next add in chopped onion and fry until soft.
4. Add in chopped tomato and give a quick mix.
5. Add in salt and turmeric powder. Stir occasionally and cook until soft.
6. At the end add in green chili and coriander leaves. Optionally you can add little jaggery and little tmarind. Adjust it as per your taste. Give a quick mix and switch off the stove.
7. Wait until cool, transfer it into a mixer grinder and grind until fine.
8. Prepare tempering using oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chili, urad dal and curry leaves.
9. Next add in ground paste from previous step.
10. Stir and boil it for 2 minutes and switch off the stove. Serve it with dosa or rice or chapathi.

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