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Home » CHUTNEY » Kara chutney recipe | For dosa, idli

Kara chutney recipe | For dosa, idli

July 18, 2016 by Raks Anand 11 Comments /

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Spicy kara chutney recipe with onion, tomato and both green red chillies and black pepper for extra spiciness.  I always make onion tomato chutney with coconut if I am making. But last week when I saw a video, I was tempted to make something spicy that is served in roadside shops as kaara chutney, that is slightly watery. And ended up with this chutney. This was super spicy, just the way I wanted. This should be handy when I have no coconut in hand. Perfect for idli and all types of dosa.
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Kara chutney recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Breakfast
Prep Time: 5 mins  |  Cook time: 10 mins   |  Serves: 3

Click here for cup measurements

Ingredients

Onion – 1


Tomato – 1


Garlic – 3 flakes


Red chilli – 2


Green chilli – 2


Black pepper – 1 tsp


Chana dal – 1 tbsp


Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Salt – As needed


To temper

Oil – 1 tsp


Mustard – 1/2 tsp


Urad dal – 1 tsp


Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Method

  1. In a pan, heat 1 tsp oil, roast 1 tbsp chana dal, 2 red chillies. Once chana dal is golden, add black pepper, garlic, roughly chopped onion, tomato, curry leaves.
  2. 1-roast

  3. Once tomatoes are soft, transfer to a plate and cool down completely. 
  4. 2-cool

  5. Transfer to a mixer and grind smoothly with salt. Add water to get right consistency you need.
  6. 3-grind

  7. This is optional, if you want you can temper with mustard, urad dal and curry leaves in a tsp of oil.
  8. 4-temper

Notes

  • I added 3 red chillies, but it was too spicy, so reduced one chilli in the recipe.

We had with godhuma dosa and it was really great.
Kara chutney

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  1. Anupama Mundhra

    July 18, 2016 at 11:31 am

    Hey, sounds delicious. How long does the chutney stay good in the fridge?

    Reply
  2. Archana Potdar

    July 18, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Sounds good

    Reply
  3. Archana Potdar

    July 18, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    Sounds good

    Reply
  4. Raks anand

    July 18, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Maximum 2 days

    Reply
  5. Vinis Cuisine

    July 20, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    yummy chuntney 🙂 love your photos as usual. kadai looks cute 🙂

    Reply
  6. Sreedevi S Viswanathan

    July 26, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Shall I use tamarind instead of tomato?

    Reply
  7. Raks anand

    July 26, 2016 at 9:54 am

    You can, but recommended tomato

    Reply
  8. Swathi H M

    July 30, 2016 at 9:09 am

    Hey I tried it.. It tastes awesome loved it 🙂

    Reply
  9. AD

    August 24, 2016 at 9:41 am

    looks awesome.. will try today

    Reply
  10. Venkatachalam Ganapathy

    September 22, 2016 at 2:46 pm

    I tried this recipe this morning
    I liked the taste

    Reply
  11. Unknown

    April 20, 2017 at 1:26 am

    Hai mam thanks for every receipe you made expecially recent Kara chutney was amazing so nice

    Reply

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