It has a longer shelf life because this chutney uses no coconut. So what gives it the volume? Read on!
Tomato Mint Chutney with No Coconut
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Yields ~ 2 cups
Ingredients:
1 cup of packed fresh mint leaves, chopped
2 ripe tomatoes, chopped
1 large (or 2 medium-sized) onions, sliced
1/2 cup of pottukadalai / roasted gram dal
3-4 of dry red chillies
1/4 tsp of asafoetida / hing
1 tbsp of oil
1/4 tsp of mustard seeds
1/2 tsp of urad dal
Salt to taste
How I Made It:
1. Heat oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. When they begin to pop, add the urad dal and fry until golden brown.
2. Add the onions and when they turn golden brown (about 4-5 mins), thrown in the red chillies, torn into halves and the chopped tomatoes. Stir well and cook for another 5-6 mins until the tomatoes turn soft.
3. Add the chopped mint leaves and cook for 3 mins until the leaves wilt and soften. Then, add the roasted gram, salt, and hing. Mix well to combine all the ingredients together and remove from fire. Cool and grind without adding any water.
A delicious, simple and mild chutney that’s bursting with mint flavour is now ready!
Notes:
– for a variation in flavour, replace mint with coriander leaves or curry leaves. You can also add some coriander leaves to this mint chutney but it’s best to keep the herb flavours separate.
– store in a dry container in the refrigerator for up to a week or freeze for up to a month.
– you can add 2-3 cloves of garlic along with the onions when frying them, for more flavour
– goes well with rice, dosa, idli, rotis, and even bread, as a spread.
Wow seems very delicious!! Mint helps in many ways, i loved the it. Must give a try. thanks!
Quick-n-delicious-n-nutritious too!
Thank You!
simply superb….
i made a mistake by adding lots of mint which eventually compressed the favour of onion n tomatoes and yea i didn add roastted gram as it was out of stock…. Neither way my son loved the chutney wid roti's:)
Perect homey recipe ! !!
Delicious chutney,i too makes this chutney…love it at any time.
I am amazed at the number of varieties tomatoes can be made into a chutney :)) this one is another yummy one.
thanks,, i hated cooking earlier. now i enjoy it – thanks to your easy and delicious food recipes..
thank you. i hated cooking earlier. now i enjoy it thanks to your easy and delicious recipies…
could you make this without onions?
could you make this without onions? looks really good!!
worth a try for sure. try increasing the amount of tomatoes and cook it longer.
Wow nice flavourful chutney without coconut…looks yum
Beautiful clicks and chutney..
looks delicious… today i posted a pudina rice recipe and now i see your post, i was actually wondering what to do with the left over pudina… will surely try ur recipe 🙂
this is an excellent chutney to make when there is no coconut. bookmarked to try this soon.
Looks perfect! I love such no coconut chutneys… My latest post is of a peanut chutney without coconut 🙂
I make the chutney in almost the same way. Adding mint must be very flavorful.
I love this chutney.. I add the small/sambar onions for this chutney 🙂
I too make this way . Neat presentation
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Wish to have dosa with this chutney right now…looks so perfect…gonna try this next time when I make dosa
My MIL also makes something similar, but I never gave these chutneys a try, except of course coconut chutney for dosa/idli.
One of these days, am gonna try these… yes…
That's the yummy combo with Idli and Dosa…
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Yummiee chutney! I've never tried adding pottu kadalai.. next time sure will give it a try!