Karibevu Chutney pudi

Mother's Recipes are the best ones as the name says it all! We all love my mom's masala powders especially sarina pudi (Rasam Powder) and chutney pudi. She has some magical hand. She waves and makes some flavoursome recipes.

She makes variety of chutney pudis like normal bele chutney pudi which is tasty and has proteins too, peanut chutney pudi - good for heart and weight loss, flaxseed chutney pudi - loaded with Omega fatty acids and other Vitamins and last but not the least the simple yet yummy Karibevu chutney pudi - helps in reducing hair loss, aids in digestion and have heard that helps in weight loss too! Yes it does remove toxins from our body and maybe thats the reason the new moms are given this with rice and ghee at the beginning of every meal.

With the lockdown now and the eating marathon we are having at home - all my pudis got over. My little one is an ardent lover of her ajji's chutney pudi - she has it with her rice, dose, idli, bread toast - just digs in her tiny finger in the chutneypudi + ghee mixture and licks it till the last bite :). This forced me to get the recipe from my mom and try it out today. And Voila!!! It turned out delicious!!

Ingredients
Curry Leaves - 2 Cups (approx) washed and dried
Oil - 2 Tbsp
Chana dal / Kadlebele - 1/4 Cup
Urad dal / Uddinabele - 2 Tbsp
Coriander seeds / kotambri beeje - 1 Tbsp
Tamarind / hunasehannu - small piece
Dried red chillies - 4 (i use byadgi variety)
Desiccated coconut/ onakobbari - 2 Tbsp
Jeera - 2 Tbsp
Asafoetida / hing - pinch
Salt to taste

Method

• Firstly, in a large pan dry roast the curry leaves on low flame until they turn crunchy. keep this aside.
• In the same pan, heat the Oil and to this add both the dals and coriander seeds. Roast until dal turns golden. Keep this aside too.
• Next to the same pan , add the tamarind, red chillies, jeera and coconut. Roast it until the coconut turns golden. keep aside.
• Now first blend the dal mixture. 
• To this add the coconut mixture and blend together to a fine powder without adding any water.
• Lastly add the Curry leaves, Salt and Hing and further blend to a fine powder.
• Once cooled, store this in an air tight container and enjoy as a healthy accompaniment upto a month.

Happy Cooking!