Kadle Bele Chutney

Ingredients:

4-5 tsp Bengal gram seeds / Kadle Bele

3/4 - 1 cup grated Coconut

2-3 Green Chillies

Grape sized Tamarind

3-4 strands of Coriander leaves

small piece of Ginger

Salt to taste

8-10 Curry leaves

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

1/2 tsp Black gram seeds

Pinch of Asafoetida powder

2 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Put 1 tsp oil in a pan and heat it. Add bengal gram seeds and fry them for about 1-2 mins in medium flame. Add ginger, cut green chillies, tamarind, 4-5 curry leaves and fry them for about 1-2 mins in medium flame.

Put this fried ingredients, coconut, coriander leaves in a mixer and grind it to smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water. Put mustard seeds, black gram seeds, 1 tsp oil in a pan. Once it starts spluttering, add pinch of asafoetida powder and keep it for few seconds. Add curry leaves and add it to Chutney. Mix well before serving. It goes well with Dosas/Idlis. This recipe is from malaskitchen. Thanks Vanamala for this wonderful recipe.