Pesarattu with Tomato garlic chutney

Serves two

Ingredients:

1. Whole Green gram - 1 cup
2. Raw rice - 1/4 cup
3. boiled rice or Idly rice - 1/4 cup
4. Ginger - 1 inch piece
5. Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
6. Onions chopped for topping

Method

• Soak the dal and rice in water for whole night
• Drain the water and add 1″ ginger piece, cumin seeds and salt.
• Grind the mixture to a smooth paste adding water as required.
• It should be similar to dosa batter and keep aside.
• Meanwhile take a separate bowl and add the chopped onions.
• Heat tawa and pour batter as a round layer and pour oil.
• Flip the pesarattu over the other side and add the chopped onions.
• Now take the pesarattu away from tawa.

Chutney recipe:

Ingredients

1. Tomatoes - 4
2. Garlic cloves -6
3. Red chilli – 7
4. Tamarind – as per the taste
5. Onion small - 1
6. Oil - 1 tbsp

For seasoning

1. Oil -1 tsp
2. Mustard - 1 tsp
3. Hing - a pinch
4. Curry leaves - few

Method 

• Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan, add red chillies, garlic, sliced onion, tamarind and saute for few minutes.
• Then add chopped tomatoes and cook till tomatoes become mushy. Add salt needed.
• Allow it to cool. Then blend it in a mixie.
• Heat a tsp of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add hing, curry leaves and pour it over the chutney.

The pesarattu with spicy chutmey is now ready :)