Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 2 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/2 cup roasted gram or hurigadale or kadle pappu
2. 1 - 2 red chillies or green chillies
3. 3 - 4 cloves of garlic (or big pinch asafoetida)
4. Little jaggery (optional)
5. little tamarind
6. Salt as per your taste

Ingredients for tempering:

1. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2. 1/2 tsp urad dal
3. 1 red chilli
4. 1 tsp cooking oil
5. 4 curry leaves

Instructions for making no coconut chutney:

1. Take roasted gram or hurigadale in a mixie jar.
2. Add in red chillies as per your spice level. You can replace red chillies with green chillies as well.
3. Add in garlic. If you don't like garlic replace it with a big pinch of asafoetida.
4. Grind everything together into a coarse powder. Add in salt as per your taste
5. Also add in very little jaggery and little tamarind. Please note, jaggery is optional.
6. Add in required water and grind it into a fine paste. Transfer it into a serving bowl.
7. Temper it with oil, mustard seeds, urad dal, red chilli and curry leaves.
8. Serve it with idli or dosa. I had served it with neer dosa.

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