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Easy Carrot Chutney Recipe

Make a quick and easy side dish with carrots to serve with dosa, idli etc..
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 4
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • Carrots - 2 medium size
  • Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Bengal gram/chana dal - 2 tbsp
  • Dry Red chilies - 3
  • Salt to taste
  • Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Few curry leaves
  • Sesame Oil - 2 tsp

Instructions

  1. Grate the carrot and keep it ready.

  2. Heat a frying pan with 1 tsp sesame oil. Add add chana dal and red chillies, and stir fry for a minute.

  3. Add grated carrot and stir fry for a minute. Transfer content in a plate and let it cool down.

  4. Add stir fried ingredients, grated coconut in your blender and blitz it.

  5. Add little water to make it into a coarse paste. Transfer it into a bowl and add salt to taste and mix it well.

  6. Add 1 tsp oil in a small frying pan and add mustard seeds, curry leaves and a pinch of asafoetida. When mustard seeds crackle, add it into the chutney.

  7. You can serve this chutney with dosas, idlis etc.