keera dosakaya pachadi

Ingredients:

• keera 1
• green chilies 8
• coriander leaves  handful
• curry leaves 5
• turmeric 1/2 tsp
• cumin and mustard seeds 1 tsp
• oil 2 Tbls
• salt to taste
• hing  pinch

Method:
wash and cut keera into small pieces. take mixie jaar add green chilies,coriander leaves,turmeric,salt and make a paste then add keera pieces just whip don't run the mixie too much.take out the chutney from jaar in to a bowl.
take a pan heat the oil and crackle cumin and mustard seeds add curry leaves switch off the flame then add hing, add this seasoning to chutney.

GONGURA PACHADI

Gongura pachadi is every ones favorite. gongura pachadi mix with rice and eat with onion.....it taste like heaven. 

Ingredients:
    

• 1 bunch of gongura leaves
• small green chilies 10
• 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
• red chilies 2
• mustard seeds 2 tsp
• chana dal 2 tspm
• pinch of hing 
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 onion
• salt to taste
• oil 4 Tbls

Method:

Wash gongura one day before, separete the leaves from stems.Take a pan heat the oil first add fenugreek seeds, then add channadal,mustard seeds,red chilies, green chilies,this time you can add garlic cloves (optional). fry them all together then add turmeric and hing.separate all the ingredients from oil with a strainer.now add the gongura leaves in the remaining oil fry them till they mashed and get little black color. switch off the flame let the leaves cool down.then add the tempering ingredients to the mixie jaar add salt,grind this mixer well, then add fried gongura leaves and just whip the mixie dont grind too much.now cut the onion into 1 1/2 inch size add them to gongura chutney. serve this chutney with rice.

dosa avakaya(cucumber chutney)

we have so many types of dosakaya chutneys.this is the basic one. very soon i will come up with other type of chutneys too.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium size cucumber(dosakaya)
• 2 Tbls red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds powder
• 2 Tbls oil
• salt to taste
• pinch of hing
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds and cumin seeds for tempering

method:

cut the cucumber into small pieces (1/2 inch size).

take a glass or ceramic bowl add red chilli powder,mustard seeds powder,salt mix well.then add 1 1/2 Tbls oil to that mixture and mix well.

add cucumber pieces to that mixture. and take a pan heat the remaining 1/2 Tbls oil and crackle the mustard and cumin seeds and let it cool down then add it to cucumber mixture.

it may look like dry but after 5 to 6 hours it oozes out oil. after a day keep it refrigerate because cucumber pieces observes too much salt.