Pottukadalai chutney recipe is an easy side dish for idli, dosa and other south Indian Breakfast items. This have only very less coconut and comparatively stays good longer.
With the very common ingredient you have in your pantry, you can make this versatile chutney.
Check out my soft idli recipe served with this chutney and equally tasty peanut chutney without coconut in this website.
Ingredients
Pottukadalai is known as roasted gram dal commonly. In Tamil it is also called as Udacha kadalai. This is always present in South Indian households and one of the easily available healthy item for kids.
Chutney kadalai in English is known as roasted gram dal or fried gram dal.
We use it in various chutney mainly or even in kurma, kuzhambu as thickening agent along the other ground items. Even we make snack and sweet with it. If I am not wrong it is also known as Dariya.
Pottukadalai Health benefits
A healthy ingredient available easily, economical and loved by kids. A handful of this for kids to snack along with jaggery provides lots of nutrients.
- Helps improving bone strength
- Enhances immunity
- Reduce inflammation
- Lowers cholesterol
Variations
I used ginger, garlic and onion in this chutney. But if you want to make it satvik, you can omit these and use asafoetida powder while tempering.
The consistency is purely your choice. If you want watery go ahead and add some water or want to keep it thick, you can serve as getti chutney.
You can also skip the coconut and make pottukadalai chutney without coconut.
Roast all the items for longer shelf life. Especially if you are going to keep in the room temperature for long. Use spoon even while grinding and avoid using bare hands.
You can skip tamarind in this recipe and in addition, add sauteed tomato, roasted red chilli in place of green chilli for variations.
Top tip
- Unlike peanut chutney though this is similar, this may not take much water like it, so add carefully.
- Never try to boil as it may turn the texture different.
- Also too hot tempering added on top can result in lumps.
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Stepwise photos
1. First, heat a kadai with oil. Break and saute green chilli until it becomes pale. Drain from oil keep aside.
2. In the same oil you can temper and transfer to the serving bowl firstly.
3. Then, place pottukadalai, coconut, chilli, garlic, ginger, onion, tamarind and salt in mixer. Powder it first.
4. Then add water and grind it wet.
Tempering pottukadalai chutney
5. Finally transfer to serving bowl, adjust water and mix well with tadka.
I enjoyed with hot, pillow soft idlis.
Recipe card
Pottukadalai chutney recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Pottukadalai udacha kadalai
- 2 tablespoon Coconut grated
- 4 Green chilli
- 1 Garlic small flake
- ¼ teaspoon Ginger
- ¼ teaspoon Small onion
- ¼ teaspoon Tamarind
- Salt
To temper
- 2 teaspoon Oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 teaspoon Urad dal
- 1 Sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- First, heat a kadai with oil. Break and saute green chilli until it becomes pale. Drain from oil keep aside.
- In the same oil you can temper and transfer to the serving bowl.
- Place pottukadalai, coconut, chilli, garlic, ginger, onion, tamarind and salt in mixer. Powder it first.
- Then add water and grind it wet.
- Transfer to serving bowl, adjust water and mix well with tadka.
Video
Notes
- You can skip tamarind in this recipe.
- Skip the coconut and make pottukadalai chutney without coconut.
Kp says
Idley Is very good recepie.and chatani is very good with tadaka. Can you send me good madu wada make in hotel style. and how to make good Rasam u also send thk u .like south Indian make.i make rasam in home
Raks Anand says
Thank you
Medhu vadai
Rasam
sreeram says
Splendid recipe. Goes well without coconut. Good guide line.