Instant chutney mix recipe | How to make chutney ready mix | Instant chutney mix powder
By Latha on November 29th, 2018
Instant chutney mix recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This instant chutney mix is a very tasty and useful recipe. Instant chutney mix is prepared using red chili, peanut, roasted gram, dry coconut, curry leaves, coriander, tamarind, salt and a big fat tempering. All the ingredients are roasted, ground into a fine powder and finally tempered to prepared instant chutney mix or ready mix.
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I prefer home made masala powders and I have already posted udupi rasam powder, bisi bele bath powder, Mysore rasam powder, sambar powder, vangi bath powder and puliyogare powder recipes. Now let us get on to the instant chutney mix or ready mix recipe.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 - 4 red chilies
- 1/4 cup peanuts or shenga
- 1/2 cup roasted gram
- 1/2 cup dry coconut or desiccated coconut
- 3 - 4 cloves of garlic
- few curry leaves
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 small marble sized tamarind
- Salt as per your taste
Ingredients for tempering:
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 red chili
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- 7 - 8 curry leaves
Instructions for making instant chutney mix:
- To beginwith, heat a frying pan, add in red chili and peanuts (shenga or nelagadale). Roast the peanuts until light brown under medium flame.
- Next add in garlic and fry for a minute.
- Followed by add in roasted gram. And roast for 1 - 2 minutes.
- Next add in dry coconut, few curry leaves and little coriander seeds. Roast them for a while.
- Finally add in salt and little tamarind. Give a quick mix and switch off the stove.
- Wait until cool and grind it into a fine powder using mixer grinder.
- Now to prepare tempering heat oil in a pan. Add in mustard, red chili, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Wait until mustard seed splutters, switch off the stove and then add in ground powder. Give a quick mix.
- Wait until cool and store it in an airtight container.
- Now to prepare chutney, take the required amount of chutney mix in a bowl, simply add the water and give a quick mix.
- Instant and tasty chutney is ready to serve. Serve it with dose or idli or rice.
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