Tomato - Green Chilli Chutney

If you ask which is spicy, tasty and easiest chutney in Telugu Foods, being a chutney lover I firmly say it's Tomato Green Chilli Chutney! without any hesitation. One of the easiest, and tastiest yummy chutney in South Indian cuisine is Tomato Chutney. It's an apt combination for almost each and every South Indian dish you make like Rice, Idly, Dosa, Curd rice. Everybody is busy today!!in this busiest life, we don't find much free time. So in busy mornings, this Tomato chutney is quite helpful for you with fewer ingredients. So easy and tasty too! just with 3 ingredients! All you need is Tomato, green chilly and tamarind that's it! There are many versions with Tomato, this is Spicy & Chilli Version!!

Ingredients :

Tomato:   5-6 medium size

Green Chillies:   10

Tamarind:   lemon size

Kottimeera (Chopped Coriander)                           : 3-4 spoons 

Oil: 2 spoons

Turmeric powder: pinch

For Tempering:

black gram:  2 spoons

Bengal gram:  2 spoons

mustard seeds: 1/4 spoon

Cumin: 1/4 spoon

Oil: 2 spoons

Method :

1. Wash and clean Tomatoes and Green chillies.

2. Shred Tomatoes, keep aside. Similarly, break the green chillies into small pieces, keep aside

3. Heat a pan, add oil to it once heat adds tomatoes and green chilli, lemon size of tamarind, salt and turmeric powder . Saute them covered for 10minutes, till tomatoes ooze their water.

4. After 10minutes remove the lid and let it cool for some time.

5. Now grind the ingredients to make pachadi. The texture is your choice!! If you like fine paste then grind it into a fine paste. Or else you can grind it into a coarse paste. For grinding you can use a mixer grinder or mortar and pestle. If you use Mortar and Pestle for grinding, it tastes super good,yummylicious!!! and best exercise too. But it all depends on your time !!

6. Do the tempering by adding all tadka ingredients under "for Tadka".

7. Now the spicy, tasty TOMATO CHUTNEY is ready. Enjoy with hot plain rice and ghee.