Kerala Recipe :- How to prepare chutney with dry red chillies and grated coconut

The basic difference between red color chutney and green color coconut chutney are the chillies used for preparing it.The red color coconut chutney is prepared of dry red chillies and the green color chutney is made of green chillies.

Here we will see how to prepare red color coconut chutney.

Ingredients:-

Grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Kunjulli / Shallots - 5

Ginger - 1 small piece

Garlic - 1 clove

Dry red chillies roasted on a tava with a drop of oil - 2

Puli / Tamarind - 1 small piece

Salt - As required

Curd - 3 tbsp

Note:- The red chillies need to be roasted before grinding. Heat a tava and add 2-3 drops of oil into that. Now fry the red chillies in oil and once you get the smell of the chilli switch of the flame and keep it aside for cooling.

Grind all the ingredients together and add curd at the end and grind again. Add some water and grind to make the chutney to a smooth paste. Transfer this to a bowl.

Heat oil for tempering, add mustard seeds and dry red chilli. Once the mustard seeds is done add curry leaves to this mixture and pour this to the chutney.

Serve with your favorite Idli/Vada or Dosa.