Herekai chutney/Ridge gourd peel chutney

HEREKAI CHUTNEY:


  

Ingredients

• 1 cup Herekai sippy/Ridge gourd peel
• 3 tsp Fresh grated coconut
• 2 tsp urdal
• 1 tsp Jaggery powder(optional)
• Tamarind- Gooseberry sized
• 3-4 Dry red chillies/ green chillies
• Salt as per taste
• 2 tsp oil-

Method:

• Wash and clean the ridge gourd peel with enough water.

                

• Take a pan adding oil, urdal and red chillies/green chilles. Roast all the ingredients together in medium flame. When it turn little brown include ridge gourd peel also to the pan. Roast the peels till they are crisp.
• Now add grated coconut, tamarind, salt and jaggery to the same pan. Switch off the flame.
• Transfer all the roasted ingredients in to mixer jar and grind together in to semi coarse paste adding water as needed.

• Heat a t pan, add a tea spoon of  oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilly and curry leaves. When mustard seeds splutter, switch off the flame and tamper on to chutney
• Ridge gourd peel chutney is ready. You can serve it as side dish with rice, idli and dosa.