Gherkins Chutney

Ingredients

• • Coconut (grated, fresh) - ¾ cup
• • Salt - as required
• • Tamarind (soaked & extracted) - big lime size
• • Jaggery (grated) - a little
• • Green chillies - 4
• • Asafoetida - 2 pinches
• • Gherkins - 12
• • Onion (big) - 1
• • Oil - a little
• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Cumin seeds - ¼ teaspoon

Method

• 1. Cut onions and gherkins finely.
• 2. Heat little oil in a frying pan, add mustard, cumin and then fry onion, gherkins.
• 3. Fry well until raw flavour of gherkin is lost.
• 4. Grind coconut, salt, jaggery, tamarind, chillies and asafoetida together to thick chutney consistency.
• 5. Add fried ingredients and grind very lightly.