Peanut Chutney/ Dip

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup peanuts
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 3 -4 green chilies, halfed
• marble sized tamarind pod
• 1 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon urad dal
• 1 pinch asafetida powder
• 3 -5 teaspoons oil
• salt

Recipe

• 1 dry roast the peanuts until light brown and deskin the nuts or buy dry roasted salted peanuts without skin.
• 2 heat oil in a pan and saute onion, chillies and tamarind until soft and soggy. allow the mixture to cool.
• 3 now grind the peanuts and the sauted mixture in a blender. add few tsp of water if needed. add salt to the mixture.
• 4 tempering - add mustard, urad dal and asafetida in hot oil and fry for a minute. then pour over the tempering into the chutney and serve.
• 5 small tip - this chutney is good even with out tempering. mix the blended mixture to hot rice and serve.