Friday, 24 February 2012

Uchellu chutney powder

1. Niger seeds – 1 cup
2. Copra grated – 4 tablespoons
3. Garlic pods – 25-30
4. Fresh corriander leaves chopped – 1 cup
5. Chilli powder – 3 teaspoons
6. Tamarind – 1″ piece
7. Salt – To taste
Ingredients of Niger seeds Chutney powder
What you do with what you have:
1. Grate dry copra, wash and chop coriander leaves fine. Peal and crush garlic pods a bit and keep aside.
2. Place a wide bottomed bowl on medium flame and add chopped coriander leaves. Keep stirring till it turns a little dry. Now add Niger seeds into it and keep roasting till it splutters and the color turns a little dull. By then even coriander leaves will have also roast. Transfer it into another bowl to cool.
3. In the same wide bowl dry roast grated copra from step 1 till it turns crispy anda little brown. Switch off theflame and add chili powder, tamarind and salt to it.
4. On cooling mix all dry roasted items from step 2 and 3 into a bowl and add crushed garlic pods to it.
Dry roasted ingredients
5. Dry grind the ingredients in the mixer to a medium coarse consistency. Enjoy it with Jwari roti or Chapathi with an onion round ring!!!!
Ready to serve Niger seeds chutney powder
On cooling store it in dry containers so it remains afresh for more than a month.
How long it takes: 45 minutes

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