Coconut - Small Onion Chutney

Coconut chutney preparation has many varieties. This is a simple and easy to make coconut chutney variant with small onions. This recipe needs no frying and can be quickly grounded with raw ingredients and just seasoned. This goes well with idly and dosa.

 

Ingredients:

 

1. Coconut – 1 Cup

2. Small onions (Shallots) – 4 or 5

3. Green Chillies – 3 or 4 (depending on your spice preference)

4. Salt – 1 to 1 ½ tsp

5. Seasoning Ingredient: Oil – 1 tsp, mustard seeds – 1 tsp, broken urud dhal – 1 tsp, curry leaves – 4/6, hing – ½ tsp

 

 

 

 

Method:

 

1. Raw grind all the ingredients from 1 to 4, adding required water. Grind to a smooth paste (this chutney need not be very watery, little thickness in consistency is good).

 

2. Season as given and pour onto the chutney and serve.

 

 

 

Tips:

 

The mild spice from the raw onions combined with green chillies spice gives a mild hot taste to this chuntey, if you find this spice little too much for you, pour a teaspoon of gingly oil on this chutney and consume, that will lessen the spice effect.