PREP TIME: 10 Mins

COOKING TIME: 20 Mins

Ingredients

Tomato – 1

Onion – 1

Garlic – 20 pods

Curry Leaves – 1 cup

Tamarind – ½ inch piece/ball

Salt – to taste

Dry red Chilli – 12

Mustard – 1 tea spoon

Urad dal – 1 tea spoon

Oil – 2 tea spoons

Procedure

STEP 1: Peel the garlic. Chop tomatoes and onion.

STEP 2: Heat oil in a pan add urad dal and fry till it turns golden brown.

 STEP 3: Add the garlic and cook till the garlic turns golden brown

STEP 4: Add red chilli, curry leaves and onion. Cook for 5 minutes.

STEP 5: Add the tomatoes, salt, tamarind and cook till the mixture turns mushy.

STEP 6: Let it cool down and grind the mixture to a fine paste.

STEP 7: Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, urad dal and the garlic-onion-tomato paste. Cook till the chutney becomes thick and reduces to half the quantity.

TIP: Garlic chutney can be served with upma, idli or dosa.