Pottukadalai chutney / Roasted gram chutney

Pottukadalai or roasted gram chutney is a very simple and easy south Indian chutney. The roasted gram is also called roasted chanadal, split gram, putanae/putanalu in Telugu and pottukadalai in Tamil. We call roasted chana dal as putanae at home and always when I ask mom which chutney, she says putanae ki chutney. It can be made with either dry coconut or dry chillies or fresh coconut. This chutney can be made in minutes and hence can be made any time and when you need to make one urgently.

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking time: 7 mins

Cuisine: South Indian

Serves: 2

Spiciness: Medium

Ingredients

  1. Pottukadalai/Roasted gram/putanae – 1/4 cup
  2. Garlic (big) – 1
  3. Tamarind paste (concentrated) – 3/4 tsp
  4. Water – 120 ml or more
  5. Dry red chillies – 3
  6. Salt - as per taste

    7. Seasoning/Tadka

  7. Oil – 2 tsp
  8. Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp
  9. Dry chillies (broken) – 2
  10. Urad dal (split) – 1/4 tsp
  11. Curry leaves – 7

Method

  1. Add all the ingredients in a mixer, grind to a fine paste. Add water as per the required consistency. Transfer in a serving bowl.

    2. Tadka

  2. Heat a small vessel with oil. When hot add all the ingredients one by one and let it crackle/splutter.
  3. When the curry leaves become crispy, switch off and pour the tadka on the chutney.
  4. Mix the tadka with the chutney and serve with idli or dosa or any south Indian breakfast/snack.

Notes

  1. Instead of the tamarind paste, you can use dry tamarind. Soak the tamarind in warm water for few minutes, remove the seeds, add the tamarind into the mixer and grind with other ingredients.

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