Dry Peanut Chutney

This is a very simple recipe. You can store this peanut chutney in refrigerator for a month and use. This is best suitable for any kind of dosa, idly and upma. 

Ingredients 

Roasted Peanut - 1.5 cup

Dry red chilli - 15 nos 

Cumin seed - 1 tsp

Asafetida - 1/4 tsp

Garlic - 7 cloves crushed 

Salt - as required 

 Method

1. Dry roast all the ingredients except garlic.

2. Let it cool and grind everything together along with garlic. Do not add water. 

3. Store this mixture in an air tight container. Whenever required, take the required quantity and mix well with some water. Your delicious peanut chutney is ready.

Corn and Peanut Vadai

Hope this would be an interesting and simple recipe for you to try. Generally for vadai, we require a long time for marination and grinding. Now lets try a simple vada which requires no marination.

Ingredients:

Boiled Rice - 1 cup

Roasted Peanuts - 1 cup

Sweet Corn - 2 cups

Chopped Onion - 1 cup

Chopped Green chilli - 1 tsp

Chopped Ginger - 1/2 tsp

Chopped Curry leaf - 2 tsp

Fennel Seed (Sonf) - 1/2 tsp

Clove - 3 nos

Cinnamon - 1 inch stick

Salt as required

Method:

1 - Crush the peanuts roughly.

2 - Grind corn, boiled rice, clove, cinnamon, fennel seed to a smooth paste. Do not add water.

3 - To the ground paste, add crushed peanuts, chopped onion, curry leaf, ginger, chilli and salt.

4 - Heat oil for frying.

5 - Now shape the mixture to make vada.

6 - You can also fry it like pakodas.