Tomato chutney

1. Fried Tomato

2. Tomato chutney

Ingredients
Tomato - 2
Onion - 1/4 part
Red dry chilly - 1 ( I used Guntur chilly which is very hot in taste so used only one. You can vary it according to your taste.)
Salt
Oil - 3 to 4 spoon
Mustard - 1/2 spoon
Urad dal/Split black gram - 1/4 spoon
Bengal gram - 1/4 spoon

Method
1. Put Urad dal and bengal gram to heated oil in a pan and fry. When color changes, add mustard seeds.

2. When mustard splutters, add chopped Tomato, Onion, Salt and red chilly. Fry until all water content of Onion and Tomato dries up as shown in picture 1.

3. Allow it to cool. Then grind it either coarsely or to fine paste.

Tomato chutney is ready !!!!

Coconut chutney

This is a side dish used along with Dosa,Idli,Roti, Chapathi etc etc....

Ingredients
Grated coconut - 1 cup
salt
Tamarind - 1/4 inch
Sugar - a pinch
Water - 3/4 cup
Oil - 1 spoon
Mustard - 1spoon
Curry leaves - 5 to 6
Chilly ( green or red) - 1 to 2 (Vary according to taste)

Method
Put all together in mixer grinder with water and grind it to fine paste.
Most of the people like it with tadka. So put Mustard seeds in 1 spoon of heated oil, when it splutters add curry leaves and put on top of chutney and mix well.

Ridgegourd ( heere kai ) chutney

What do you do with the ridges of ridge gourd once you peel it off?? Throw it away?? WAIT; don't do that. I have a recipe for you with the peeled off ridges of ridge gourd - Ridgegourd chutney.
I learned it from my mother and it is one of my favorites.

Here it goes like this..........

Ingredients

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Peeled ridges of 2 Ridge gourd

Grated Coconut - half of halved coconut part.

Coriander seeds - 3 tablespoon

Red chilly - 2

Garlic - 2

Oil - 2 tablespoon

Salt

Tamarind - about an inch

Method

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1. Put ridges, coriander seeds, red chilly, tamarind and salt in a bowl and cook it well.

2. Once it cools, add grated coconut and grind it to a paste.

3. Heat oil in a pan; add garlic cloves and fry it till it turns to brown.

4. Put fried garlic cloves above the ridge paste and mix it well before you serve.

The delicious chutney is ready..