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Carrot Chutney

Coconut is full of calories and should be used sparingly I am told repeatedly that pushed me to find alternate options with steaming idlis or hot crispy dosas . I love carrots and wanted to try making carrot chutney and it was not a disappointment . This has become an alternate now 😉

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Ingredients :

1 cup grated carrot

1 onion chopped

3 dried red chillies

1 spoon channa dal

1 tsp Ginger

2 tspoon oil

Small piece of tamarind

Salt to taste

 

Method :

Take a wok and heat a spoon of oil. Add the grated carrot and sauté until the raw smell leaves

Take another wok heat oil add channa dal , onions , red chillies, ginger and sauté until it turns golden brown.

Cool all ingredients and grind them along with tamarind and salt . Add water as required .

Notes : We can also add tadka/temper to the chutney with oil, mustard , urad dal, hing , curry leaves

Cheela

A healthy breakfast option anytime makes me happy . One of the regular brekkie option i retort to is cheela. Its simple, its healthy and its delicious , isn’t that a match made in heaven ?

The above pics are from my insta story , I forgot to click pics because of insta stories :/

Ingredients :

Besan/ Chickpea flour/Gram Flour- 1 cup

Onion , finely chopped -1

Green chilly , finely chopped – 1

turmeric power – half tea spoon

salt – to taste

Garam Masala – about a pinch

Water – 1 to 1.5 cups

Method :

Mix all the above said ingredients with a cup of water and make sure its of a right consistency ,not very watery and not too thick . Keep it aside for 5 mins .

Heat a non stick pan and pour the batter like we do for dosa and wait for it to cook. Put a lid over it so the same cooks in steam and I prefer slow cooking at any time . The taste one can get from slow cooking can never be obtained by cooking on high flame . These cheelas are delicious and can be eaten with chutney too. I prefer it plain like this and is one of my favourite of all time .

Note 

We can add curry leaves or coriander leaves and it will only taste nicer .

Happy Cooking!