Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Servings: 3-4 Servings

Chutneys are superb accompaniments to most snacks and are also a great way to add zing to an otherwise bland meal. Here’s a recipe to prepare a spicy garlic chutney to tingle your taste buds. It’s also a great way of adding healthy ingredients like garlic, sesame seeds and coconut to your intake.

Preparing chutneys at home using fresh and healthy ingredients, like this one is always a wonderful idea as it gets you the best of taste minus the additives that are commonly found in the commercially available options.

Ingredients

• Cold pressed oil: 1 tsp (optional)
• Garlic: 8 gms (22 - 24 small garlic cloves)
• White sesame seeds: 2 tsp
• Desiccated coconut: ½ cup
• Kashmiri red chilli powder: 1 tsp
• Rock salt: to taste

Method

Sautéing Chutney ingredients

• Heat a small pan on low heat and add the garlic cloves. Mix and sauté for about 30 to 40 sec. Best to dry roast, else you could use little cold pressed oil to sauté the ingredients.
• Add 2 tsp white sesame seeds.
• Sauté for about 15 to 20 sec or till the sesame seeds change color
• Switch off flame. Add ½ cup desiccated coconut and mix well.
• Add 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder, some salt and mix again.
• Allow the mixture to cool down.

Making dry garlic Chutney

• When the mixture has cooled down completely, add in a small dry grinder jar.
• Grind in intervals of 4 to 5 sec and stop. Do not grind at a stretch as then oil will be released from the coconut and sesame seeds. You can even use pulse option of the mixture grinder.
• Grind to a coarse or semi-fine mixture. Spoon the dry garlic chutney in a small glass jar or bowl cover tightly and refrigerate.
• Serve dry garlic chutney as required with any snack

Eating guide

• Food group: Veggies (raw), seeds and nuts
• Vegetables, especially raw are a great source of vitamins and minerals. While coconut is a wholesome nut and adding the same to your meals provides for high source of fiber and nutrition.
• Blended in a chutney is a good way to disguise seeds for your fussy eaters and add a natural source of fats to their daily intake!
• Goes well with most snacks!

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