Easy Peanut Chutney
Easy Peanut Chutney- A quick and easy peanut chutney made with green chilies and lemon
Servings: 1 bowl
Ingredients
- 1 cup Peanuts / Moongphali
- 4 Green chilies/Hari Mirch
- 1.5 tsp Ginger / Adrak chopped
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- To taste Salt / Namak
- 2 tsp Lemon juice
Tempering/ tadka
- 1.5 tsp Cooking Oil
- 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
- 1/2 tsp White lentil/urad daal
- Pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 2 Dried Red Chili, Whole
Instructions
- Add peanuts in a pan and dry roast on low flame till they turn slight golden and few start crackling.
- Remove the roasted peanuts from the pan and let them cool down completely.
- Now rub the peanuts to remove the skin. Discard the peeled red skin and keep the peanuts in a separate plate.(this step of removing the peanut skin is optional)
- In a mixer jar add the roasted peanuts, salt,cumin,chopped green chilies ,ginger, few curry leaves, lemon juice and some water and grind to make a smooth paste.(the quantity of water depend on the consistency of chutney you want )
- Take out the prepared chutney in a bowl.
- Tadka- Heat oil in small pan and add mustard, and white lentil. when mustard start crackling then add asafoetida, curry leaves and the whole red chilies.
- Add the tempering in the chutney and mix.
- Keep refrigerated and it easily stays well for a week.
- Serving- serve with Idli, Dosa, uttapam or any fried or steamed snack of your choice
Notes
Note-
- You can also make this chutney without adding lemon juice ,it will taste good both ways.
- Removing the peanut skin is optional, just the colour will be slight different but taste will be same.
- You can add yogurt or tamarind pulp instead of lemon juice.