Home Made Chutneys or Sauces

                Home Made Chutneys or Sauces

Chutneys/sauces can make a real difference to a dish. So I thought of sharing few recipes with all of you. There are endless number of chutney/sauce recipes but as I would be using  some of these chutney/sauces in my forthcoming recipes  on my  blog I  thought of starting with these in this post. These can be made ahead of time and be kept refrigerated. 

Dry Garlic Chutney

Makes: 1/2 cup

Ingredients:

2 Kashmiri dry red chillies (these chillies aren't too spicy so I use these for good colour.)

1/8 cup roasted Chana/dalia (roasted gram)

1/8 cup desiccated

6 cloves of garlic

1/2 tbsp. Kashmiri red chilli powder

1 tsp. salt or to taste

Method:

Put all ingredients together in a grinder and try to grind as fine as possible. Take the mixture out and put in a jar. You can keep this chutney in refrigerator for 10-15 days at least.

I use this chutney for making bhel-puri, vada pav etc. You can definitely find more creative ways to use this chutney.

Mint Chutney/ Sauce

Makes: approx. 3/4 cup

Ingredients:

1/2 cup yogurt (very thick yogurt is needed for this chutney if you don’t have thick yogurt then you can hang it in a muslin cloth for an hour or so.)

1/4 cup packed, fresh mint leaves (properly washed)

2-3 garlic cloves

1 green chilli

1/2 tsp. roasted cumin powder

1/4 tsp. black salt

1/2 tsp. sugar/stevia

1/2 tsp. plain salt or to taste

Method: Take washed fresh mint leaves, garlic cloves, green chilli, and 1-2 tsp. of curd, sugar/stevia, black salt, roasted cumin powder and plain salt in a grinder and make a paste. Now whisk rest of the yogurt and add this paste.

If we put all the yogurt in the mixer with other ingredients then it will make the sauce very thin.

This chutney/sauce can also be kept in refrigerator for 1-2 days at least.

Honey Mustard Sauce

Makes: Approx...100 ml.

Ingredients:

4 tbsp. mustard sauce (ready made)

1 tbsp. olive oil

1 tsp. honey

1 tbsp. yogurt

1 tsp. lemon juice

1 tsp. of Oregano, thyme, basil & any other dry herb you like

Salt to taste (very little salt will be needed as mustard sauce already has salt in it.)

Method: Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk everything with a wire whisk or a spoon.