Wednesday, December 02, 2009

For the uninitiated chef-Onion Chutney - 1!

I love food and can eat almost anything served on a plate and even remotely edible.
Till here there is no perceptible issue but my problem is that i cannot appreciate the food i cook. Well that is not surprising considering the fact that i make a lousy cook. However being the person i am, i am just not ready to quit as yet.
So here i list down some of the simplest recipes that can be tried by anyone. These are of course lifted from friends and also from various websites. I wholeheartedly attribute all due credit to them.
Today i had some frozen idlis and i was tired of the usual chutney that we get. That reminded me of the yummy chutney that Dee prepared.
It's simple to prepare and it is absolutely scrumptious.

Onion Chutney recipe
Preparation time: 15 mins or less

Ingredients:
Onions - 1 [Chopped]
Dry chillies -4 [or as suits your palate -i like it spicy so i put 5]
Oil- as required
Tamarind - 1 teaspoon
Salt - To taste

Method of Preparation:
Heat oil in a frying pan.
Fry the red chillies for 2 mins [Caution:See that the chillies do not get burnt].
Remove the chillies from the pan and fry the onions with salt till the onion turns golden brown. [Onions get fried faster when salt is added]
Remove from pan and keep aside to cool.
Take a teaspoon of tamarind and soak it in water.

Once the onion is cooled add the chillies,fried onion and tamarind water to the mixer and grind it to paste.
Serve with idlis/dosa.

P.S: All due to credits to Dee

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ah.. Pravi cooks ;)

Unknown said...

no salt......?

Pravitha said...

@Anon: Yeah i better :)
@Vandana: This is why i trust you so ...will append the salt in post :)