Healthy Food Recipes - Carrot Chutney!
Posted on: 19/Dec/2014 10:19:08 AM
Ingredients:
- Carrot – 250 gram
- Onion – 2 nos
- Tomato – 3 nos
- Red chilli – 3 nos
- Urad Dal – 3 spoons
- Bengal gram – 2 spoons
- Curry leaves – a few
- Coriander leaves – a few
- Cumin seeds – ½ spoon
- Mustard seeds – ½ spoon
- Coconut- a small piece
- Tamarind – a small lemon size (optional)
- Oil – 6 spoons
- Asafetida –a pinch
Method:
- Wash the carrot and remove its skin. Chop it into very small even sized pieces.
- Same way chop onion and tomato and set aside.
- Heat pan with 1 spoon of oil and sauté the urad dal, Bengal gram and dry red chilli separately and fry them well. Remove it in a plate.
- Heat the same pan with 4 spoons of oil and add curry leaves, coriander leaves, garlic, chopped onion and carrot one after the other.
- Sauté the mix well for about 5 to 10 minutes and then tomatoes to it. Sauté it well until the raw smell leaves and tomatoes become mushy.
- Then remove it in a plate and allow it to cool for some time.
- Grind the roasted ingredients in step 3 using a mixer and add it to the mixer of onion and carrot and grind well.
- Add salt to taste and if needed you can add tamarind and grind well.
- Heat the pan with 1 spoon of oil and add cumin and mustard seeds and asafoetida for tempering and put it on top of the chutney.
- Serve it hot along with either dosai or idli or chapatti.
Note:
- If you want sourer taste, then you can add tamarind, else the sour taste in tomato is enough for the dish, no need to add tamarind.
- Both curry leaves and coriander leaves is good for health, thus add it more.
- This is the apt way of giving vegetables to children who hate vegetables without their knowledge.
- Peel the skin of the carrot and wash it using the tap water, so as to make it free from germs.
Health Benefits of Carrot:
- Aids in preventing stroke
- It purifies the body toxins
- Averts infection and cancer
- Augments the eye vision
- Augments the skin shiny
- Protect from heart diseases
- Lessens blood pressure
- Boost body immune system
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
