Peanut & Tomato Chutney

Recipe Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup peanuts

1 cups chopped tomatoes

4 green chillies

2 garlic cloves

1 tbsp cumin seeds

1/2 tbsp mustard seeds

1/2 split black gram

2 dry red chillies, broke into two pieces

5 curry leaves

5 tbsp oil

salt (according to taste)

How to prepare:

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan over a medium high heat. Add few cumin seeds and green chillies and cook for 3 minutes. Add peanuts and tomatoes and stir for further 2 minutes. Cover the lid and let it cook untill tomatoes are well cooked and pulpy and the peanuts are roasted.

Transfer the contents in the saucepan to blender, add garlic and salt and blend into a fine paste, transfer the peanut & tomato paste into a bowl. Heat remaining oil in a small saucepan over a medium heat, when hot add mustard seeds followed by adding remaining cumin seeds, split black gram, curry leaves and dry red chillies and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes.

Pour the contents of saucepan over peanut tomato chutney paste scraping off every bit from the saucepan, mix well untill combined.

Serving Suggestions:

It goes well with idly's or with dosa.