Sometimes we would be bored of making conventional chutneys. Red capsicum chutney is a unique and tasty chutney You would surely love it. This chutney is very rich and dominant in the flavour of roasted capsicum. Red capsicum are a great source of vitamin A & C It is a very nutrition rich vegetable. This would a perfect sidedish for bread, paratha, idli, dosa etc.
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Red Capsicum Chutney Recipe | Kudamilagai Chutney Recipe |
Preparation and Yield:
Preparation time | 10 mins |
Cooking Time | 20 mins |
Servings | 4 |
Recipe Category | Chutney |
Recipe Cuisine | South Indian |
Ingredients:
Red Capsicum | 2 |
Onion | 1 |
Tomato | 1 |
Salt | To taste |
Urid Dal | 2 tablespoon |
Red Chilli | 4 |
Tamarind | a pinch or 1/4 teaspoon of tamarind paste |
Salt | To Taste |
Oil | 2 tablespoon |
For Seasoning:
Oil | 1 teaspoon |
Mustard Seeds | 1 teaspoon |
Split Urid dal | 1 teaspoon |
Curry leaves | few |
Method:
- Wash and chop the capsicum, remove the seeds and chop them into small pieces
- Roughly chop the onion and tomato and keep it aside
- First, lets start with frying the grinding ingredients. Heat 2 teaspoon of oil in a pan. Add urid dal and fry for 10 seconds. Add red chilli to the pan and fry both of them till the dal turns golden brown color
- When the dal is golden brown color, add those to the mixer jar and again keep the pan in the flame
- Add 2 teaspoon of oil again to the pan and add the onions. Saute the onions till they are transparent. Then add the chopped tomatoes and mix well
- Add the chopped capsicum and saute the veggies till they become tender. Switch off the flame and allow the veggies to cool off before grinding
- Meanwhile, lets proceed with the tempering. Heat a teaspoon of oil. Add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add split urid dal and fry till the dal turns golden brown color. Then, add broken curry leaves and fry for couple of seconds.
- Add the seasoned ingredients to a bowl. Now the veggies are cooled off. Add the cooled veggies to the mixer jar which has the fried urid dal and red chilli. Add tamarind and salt to the mixer jar
- Grind all these ingredients to a nice and smooth paste. Add the chutney to the bowl having the seasoned ingredients and mix well
- Yummy and tasty Red Capsicum Chutney is now ready to serve!
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Red Capsicum Chutney Recipe | Kudamilagai Chutney Recipe |