Carrot chutney is a healthy and nutritious side dish for idli or dosa. Best way to make your kid eat vegetable in hidden form. Lovely colored chutney!
Carrot chutney not only looks appealing to our eyes, it has carrot hidden in it and makes it more healthy to consume too.
Carrot can be a lovely replacement for coconut. This tastes similar to coconut thogaiyal, added with goodness of carrot!
This goes well with idli, dosa, arisi upma and such south Indian breakfast items.
I also would suggest this if you are packing tiffin box for kids. They will sure get excited and feel proud to see such lovely looking dish with a twist in their box.
As I have mentioned in my cocktail idli post, this is a great side dish. Podi idli is also a great choice.
Carrot chutney recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Side dish
Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Serves: 4
Ingredients
Carrot, grated - ½ cup
Coconut, grated- ½ cup
Ulutham paruppu/urad dal - 1 & ½ tblsp
Rechillies,long variety - 5
Tamarind - 1 peanut sized
Salt - As needed
To temper
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard - ¾ tsp
Urad dal- 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Method
- Heat a frying pan with little oil,fry the urad dal and red chillies till golden brown.
- Fry the grated carrots till raw smell disappears.keep aside.
- Temper the items given under the To temper in a serving bowl.
- Grind all the items together along with tamarind and salt with required amount of water to a smooth chutney.
- Mix in the tempered items and serve with Idli or Dosai!
Carrot chutney recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Carrot grated
- ½ cup Coconut grated
- 1.5 tablespoon urad dal Ulutham paruppu
- 5 Red chillies long variety
- 1 pinch Tamarind peanut sized
- Salt as needed
To temper
- 1 teaspoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 teaspoon Urad dal
- 1 sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Heat a frying pan with little oil, fry the urad dal and red chillies till golden brown.
- Fry the grated carrots till raw smell disappears, keep aside.
- Temper the items given under the To temper in a serving bowl.
- Grind all the items together along with tamarind and salt with required amount of water to a smooth chutney.
jeyashrisuresh
never heard of this carrot chtney.Healthy one.Beautiful presentation.
Rohini
Wow.. Lovely color and a healthy chutney.. Great way to make picky eaters like my DH 😉
jayasri
Carrot chutney was what one day flashed my mind!!, but never tried as I thought it might give a sweet taste to the dish, Mr.R doesn't like anything which has a sweet flavour in his spicy dish!!, does it taste sweet, your chutney looks so gorgeous, it is calling me to try out, will give it a go with just one little carrot and how it is taken by my family !!
Kanchan
Wow Carrot chutney seems new ! And obviously very healthy and very easy to prepare !
Sharmilee! :)
Wow nice color and presentation, havent thought of chutney with carrots...sounds interesting! Luved the bowl 🙂
shanthi
SIMPLE YET HEALTHY. LOVELY COLOUR
LG
Very well presented..love the chutney
Happy Cook
Love the colour and yummy chutney.
Prathibha
ooohhhh...The chutney looks very colorful n appetizing dear...Loved that cute carrot flower and curry leaves..Nice bowl too dear..
Sush
lovely bowl. Did you buy from Ikea?
carrot chutney looks great.
Dershana
I make carrot chutney too.posted mine with adai dosai. lovely click and colour!
Akal's Saappadu
carrot thuvayal looks fantastic !!!lovely colour!!!
Priya
I do carrot chutney very often, tastes too prefect with idlis na, delicious and fantastic chutney..
Nags
lovely pics. i have seen this in a few blogs and keep meaning to try, but haven't so far 🙂
notyet100
lovely pics,..
Priya Narasimhan
as usual the pictures look so appealing..a must try chutney recipe..may be i will add some onions too
Shama Nagarajan
yummy yummy...nice photo
sowmya.s
looks delicious..lovely colur..and nice idea of making thuvayal with carrots
Rachana Kothari
Looks delicious and healthy too... a great recipe:)
Asha
Healthy and colorful good one Raks.
Tina
Never tried this beautiful chutney....Looks colourful and inviting....
Pari
Looks so colourful Raji and so well presented. I liked ur bowl too..
A 2 Z Vegetarian Cuisine
Thats indeed a healthy chutney..
Preeti Kashyap
healthy and awesome looking chutney! Great clicks as always. Please do send me the video of your medu vada recipe (you said you had taken it with ur phone camera..I read the post!)...I am awful in making these vadas. [email protected]
lata raja
Really innovative and colourful chutney.
Cilantro
Lovely bowl of chutney and a nice spicy way of eating carrots. Would love to try it for my daughter.
Kitchen Flavours
Wow...that's something new with carrots...looks yummy....
Pavithra
Mmmmm I too do the same way raks.. so healthy perfect combo with tiffins and even plain rice. My son loves it so much cos of light sweet taste.. But I add little less coconut.
Mangala Bhat
wow!looks soo good ! very colorful!
Saraswathi Iyer
Wonderful recipe. Nice presentation n colour.
Cham
Beautiful togaiyal - I love to mix with rice!
Anu
Never tried this chutney... Lovely color and healthy chutney...
Jagruti
Hey
Lovely colourful carrot chutney...very intresting..
cheers
Priya
luvly chutney..i too posted in my blog..
Padma
Healthy and delicious chutney. Nice presentation.
Swathi
carrot chutney new to me looks really good
simply.food
This chutney looks lovely and delicious.Lovely click too.
kothiyavunu
Very innovative & healthy chutney.. New one for me! Looks and sounds yummy. Will def give it a shot, one of these days.
Shobana senthilkumar
Wow...nice presentation raks...must hv to try:)
KALVA
Nice carrot chutney!! what a color!!
SE
wonderful picture!!! good with dosa...yum
RAKS KITCHEN
Shush I got the bowl in robinsons or metro i dont remember exactly 🙂
preeti I have sent you the video!
Uma
looks absolutely delicious. Love the carrot flower too 🙂
Soma Pradhan
This is a nice healthy chutney..Going to try out very soon
Sailaja Damodaran
Simple & healthy one
Suma Rajesh
wooo this is a must recipe to try...nice presentation..
Preeti Kashyap
Thanks Raks! Got it the video!
Valarmathi
Never tried this chutney, lovely color, looks delicious.
Gita
Healthy anbd yummy chutney Raks...love the color 🙂
Yasmeen
The lovely bowl makes the chutney even more tempting 😀
Sarah Naveen
Oh my..That looks amazing..Awesome clicks too.....
Anonymous
I miss carrot chutneys! This is really healthy and I find it easy to prepare.
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Supriya Nair
Lovely colour dear...wish could gulp this one!
jayasree
Beautiful presentation...
I too make it as a side for idly/dosai. It works well as bread spreads too.
Sushma Mallya
I Have heard just abt the carrot juice but using it for chutney is very intersting...looks delicious raks and beautifully presented too...thanks for sharing
Parita
chutney looks lovely!
Preety
carrot chutney is new to me..lovely presentation dear
Ramya Vijaykumar
Definitely wonderful color... I make the same chutney but without coconut!!! Looks very delicious too!!!
RV
looks fabulous and it is completely new to me.. I have bookmarked this one...
my kitchen
Healthy,colorful & yummy chutney dear
Cynthia
Oh this is new to me... great idea.
Ramya Manja
Bumped in here for the first time,loved it a lot,nice collection of recipes...
Carrot chutney looks real inviting and sounds delicious as well...gr8 clicks too.
Njoy Blogging n Happy Cooking....
Nithu Bala
Looks so tasty..you have a wonderful space..am following you..do visit my blog when you get time..love to hear your comments..
Animisha
hey
U make my heart melt with carrot chutney.
This is my ultimate favorite.
Not able to leave posts without commenting today.
We have this atleast once in a week in my mom's place.
But my hubby doesnt eat this.
Its been almost 4 yrs i cooked this chutney.
Thats 4 yrs of married life by yesterday.
Sacrificed a lot of vegetables and dishes.
reshmi
wht a variety of chutneys....really luvd ur presentationsss....
tooo tasty also...keep going
Cynthia Pinto
Thanks for all your unique recipes. especially the wide range of chutneys..
foodie Manisha
hey thats one nice option to eat otherwise boring carrots. nice chuttany
Renuka Ambbarees
Shall I add ginger while grinding?
Renuka Ambbarees
Without coconut. ...is chutney will be nice?
Raks anand
I think it will be good and texture will be differing.
Renuka Ambbarees
Thanks yaar.
Godfrey
What is tempering.? Pls explain as I'm new to cooking..
Raks anand
Temper in south indian cooking means : Heat oil in a pan/ Kadai until it hot. If you drop the mustard seeds, it should pop immediately. Pop the mustard seeds until the last one. Otherwise it will be bitter. So make sure the oil to be hot as you drop the mustard seeds, it should pop (crackle) immediately. Then add the other items one by one and fry until golden. This will be happening soon, so keep everything ready to avoid burning. In North Indian cooking, just heat oil/ghee and add the whole spices and give it a fry.