I like chow chow and make chow chow sambar or chow chow kootu very regularly since it's easily available in the vegetable markets here. But a chutney? Let's see how that goes.
Chow Chow Chutney (Thuvaiyal) Recipe
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Makes ~2 cups chutney Serves 4-6
Adapted from: Dakshin by Chandra Padmanabhan
Ingredients:
1 medium-sized chow chow
1 tomato
1 tablespoon of oil
1 green chilly
1 small bunch of coriander leaves (cilantro)
2 tablespoon of toor dal
1 tablespoon of skinned urad dal
2-3 dry red chillies
½ teaspoon of hing/asafoetida/perungaayam
Salt to taste
How to make Chow Chow Chutney:
1. Peel and grate the chow chow. Chope the tomatoes into small pieces and roughly chop up the coriander leaves.
2. in ½ tablespoon oil, fry both the dals along with the hing and dry red chillies.
When the dals turn golden brown, remove from pan and set aside to cool.
Grind the cooled dal mixture to a fine powder. MIne wasn't super fine, and that's just fine. Heh.
3. In the same pan, add ½ tablespoon more oil and add the grated chow chow, chopped tomatoes, and the green chilly.
4. The chow chow will let out water and turn a duller colour. Cook until the water has evaporated and the tomatoes turn softy and mushy - around 5-6 minutes. Set aside to cool.
5. Once cooled, transfer the chow chow mixture to a blender, add the coriander leaves, and blend to a paste without adding any water.
Add the dal mixture and some salt and blend again scraping down the side a couple of times. Don't add any water.
Done! Goes super well with plain white rice and ghee. I served it with rice and kadala kozhambu.
Preeti
Just wanted to say that I made this chutney this evening and it was lip smacking delicious even though our eyes were watering due to the heat from the chilis! This recipe's bookmarked, thanks for sharing!!
vaishnavi
Nice recipe...My Granny used to do the same thogayil, with its skin... Chow chow tholi thogayal, wat we call it...Its so nice, and you can use the veggie for kootu and its peel for thogayal...Try ths also...
Archana
looks delicious.
Vanamala Hebbar
Nice recipe...
Jehanne
Guess what, I don't know what chow chow is! Shame on me, time to investigate at my local market then. Btw, to answer you, I have just moved to Singapore recently, Nags..so count me in for any bloggers meetups ( is there any?)
Nagalakshmi V
we used to, not so much anymore 🙂