Dondakaya/tindora Chutney

I never ate dondakaya pachadi,but my husband likes dondakaya chutney and I prepared this for the first time and I liked it.

Earlier I hated dondakaya and would never eat it whenever my mom would cook it.She would generally end up cooking a different curry just for me. Now that I am cooking, I do not feel like cooking separately for me so what ever I cook for my husband I have to eat it.

Ingredients

• 250 gms dondakaya
• 5 green chillies
• 2 red chillies
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 tsp black gram
• 2 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp tamarind paste
• curry leaves
• salt to taste
• oil for frying and seasoning

Directions to Cook

• Chop tindora and green chillies into small pieces and keep them aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry green chillies first and keep them aside.
• Now fry the finely chopped tindora on a medium flame till they turn golden colour and allow them to cool down.
• Now put the fried tindora,green chillies,tamarind,garlic and salt to the mixer jar and grind them to a coarse paste and take it in a bowl.
• For seasoning,heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,black gram,cumin seeds and stir them gently till they pop up.
• Now add red chillies and curry leaves and fry them till they turn to light brown.
• Add the above to the chutney and serve with hot rice and ghee.
• This will go well with dosas/idli also.

Tip

If you want to have a different taste you can also add 1/4 cup of roasted ground nuts/chana dal/gingely seeds.