Kara Chutney

 Kara chutney is made with onion, garlic cloves, tomato, red chilly and tempered with mustard, red chilly, curry leaves and asafoetida and goes well as a side dish with dosa, idli, appam and rice.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Kara Chutney.

Ingredients:
Garlic cloves.  -6
Onion.             -1
Tomato.           -2
Dry red chilly. -5 +1
Tamarind.        -a gooseberry size
Asafoetida.      -a pinch
Urad dal.         -1 tsp
Mustard seeds.-1 tsp
Curry leaves.   -few
Salt.                 -to taste
Coconut oil.    -1tbsp +1tsp

Method:

1). Heat 1tbsp coconut oil in a pan. Add dry red chilly and saute well. Add garlic cloves and saute well. Add chopped onion and saute until onion turns translucent. Add tamarind and roughly chopped tomato and saute well until soft. Switch off the flame and allow the saute ingredients to cool.

2). Once cooled add all the sauteed ingredients and required salt in a mixer and grind together to a smooth paste. Transfer the ground kara chutney to a bowl.

3). Heat oil in a small pan for tempering. Add urad dal and saute well. Splutter mustard seeds. Add 1dry red chilly broken pieces and curry leaves into the pan and saute for few seconds. Add asafoetida and mix well. Switch off the flame and pour the tempering over the kara chutney in the bowl.

Kara chutney is ready to serve as a side dish with dosa, idli, appam and rice.