Coconut Chutney | Hotel style green coconut chutney | Kaayi Chutney
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Recipe type: Side
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 1 small bowl
 
Super-easy, hotel style green coconut chutney
Ingredients
  • ½ Cup packed grated fresh coconut
  • ¼ Cup fried gram/huri gadale/kadale pappu/chutney kadale
  • 2 green chillies chopped
  • 1" ginger chopped
  • 6-7 torn curry leaves
  • 2-3 sprigs of coriander
  • 1 small piece or a pinch of powdered hing/asafoetida
  • Salt to taste
  • Water to grind
  • For tadka:
  • 1 Tsp oil
  • ½ Tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 broken dry red chilli
  • Few curry leaves
Method
  1. In a mixer jar, add the coconut, add ginger, green chillies, curry leaves
  2. Add chopped coriander leaves, hing and salt to taste
  3. Add fried gram
  4. Add 1-2 tbsp water and start to grind the chutney
  5. Add more water as and when needed to get a smooth chutney. Make tadka with oil, mustard, broken red chilli and curry leaves. Pour over chutney
  6. Serve as an accompaniment with dosas, idlis
Notes
Add more green chillies if you like for more heat

Fried gram makes a smooth chutney, it gives body to the chutney

Omit hing if you want the chutney to be gluten-free

Refrigerate the leftover chutney. Coconut tends to spoil especially in hot weather
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/coconut-chutney/