Coconut Peanut Chutney

Coconut Peanut Chutney is a South Indian, easy to make, gluten free and vegan chutney. This spicy chutney is made by blending roasted peanuts, roasted bengal gram, coconut, tamarind, salt, chili with water. A tempering made with oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal , curry leaves and chili is poured over it to make it more tasty and aromatic. The chutney is a good accompaniments with South Indian dishes such as Idli, Dosa, Uttapam, vada, Paniyaram. It can be made from all the readily available ingredients from home.

Course accompaniments, Breakfast, brunch, dinner, gluten free, lunch, vegan

Cuisine Indian, south Indian

Keyword accompaniments, breakfast, chutney, chutney for idli, coconut, gluten free, lunch, peanut, roastedbengalgram, vegan

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 2 minutes

Servings cup

Calories 395kcal

Equipment

mixer jar
bowl
spoon
small pan for tempering (tadka pan)

Ingredients

1/2 cup coconut desiccated or freshly grated
1/2 cup peanut roasted and peeled
1/2 cup roasted bengal gram daalia
3 green chili
small ball of tamarind
1 tsp salt
2 cup water

For tempering (tadka)

2 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp urad dal split black gram
1 tsp mustard seeds rai
1 tsp cumin seeds jeera
1/2 tsp asafoetida hing
2 dry red chili
10 curry leaves

Instructions

Add roasted and skin removed peanuts in the mixture bowl
Add roasted bengal gram, green chili, tamarind ball and salt.
Add desiccated or fresh coconut.
Add 1/2 cup of water and blend it .
Add remaining water and blend everything to smooth paste. Add more water if needed to adjust the consistency . It shoud be a little runny than cake batter consistency.
Remove in a bowl.

For Tempering (tadka)

Heat oil. Add urad dal.
Now add mustard seeds, cumin seeds. When they crackle add dry red chili, curry leaves, asafoetida. Mix well.
Pour the hot tempering over the prepared ground chutney.
Mix well.
The coconut peanut chutney is ready to serve. It can be refrigerated for 3-4 days in an airtight container or freezed for 15 -20 days..
I had served the coconut peanut chutyney with tomato chutney , sambhar and soft soft idli made from idli rava for a complete meal.

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