Kara Chutney Recipe | Hotel Style Kara Chutney

Kara Chutney is one of the popular sidedishes in hotels. Kara Chutney Recipe with step by step pictures and video.I have given here 2 versions of kara chutney : one is the hotel style and another a instant quick version that can be done in just 5 mins if you have all the ingredients in hand.

Kara Chutney is a super spicy sidedish as the name and it was apt with soft uttapams, goes well with idlis and crispy dosas too.

About this Kara Chutney Chutney 

I had this Saravana Bhavan Style Kara Chutney long back when I was searching for spicy chutney recipes.Even before I tried Saravana Bhavan Sambar, this recipe was in my bookmarks folder, Last week when I posted sambar few readers and friends requested to post the tomato chutney recipe which is famous in Saravana Bhavan.Only then I remembered about this recipe that I had bookmarked long ago so tried it today and enjoyed it with hot uttapams for breakfast.It 

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Kara Chutney Recipe

Kara Chutney is one of the popular sidedishes in hotels. KAra Chutney Recipe with step by step pictures and video.

Course Breakfast, Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 2

Calories

Author Sharmilee J

Ingredients

• 1 medium sized big onion
• 1 medium sized tomato
• 4 nos whole dry red chilli
• 1 tbsp whole urad dal
• 1 tbsp channa dal
• 4 cloves garlic skin peeled chopped roughly
• salt to taste
• water as required to soak
• 1 tsp oil

To temper

• 1 tsp oil
• 3/4 tsp mustard seeds
• 1/4 tsp urad dal
• few curry leaves

Instructions

• In a pan add a drop of oil and roast urad dal,chana dal along with red chillies till golden.Set aside to cool.Now in the same pan add onion,garlic and saute till onion turns transparent.
• While its getting sauted, soak roasted red chillies in hot water.Once onion turns slightly golden, then add tomato and saute till mushy and raw small leaves completely.
• Cool down and transfer everything to a mixer and grind it along with little water to a chutney consistency.Don't grind it too smooth.Transfer to a serving bowl.Add required salt and mix well.
• In a tadka pan - heat oil add the ingredients listed under 'to temper' let it splutter.Add this tadka to the chutney and mix well.
• Serve hot with idli, dosa or uttapam

Video

Notes

• Soaking red chillies is to just get grinded easily.
• Roast the dals just till golden.
• As per the orginal recipe you can add upto 6 red chillies.But for me this itself was spicy.
• Adjust salt according to the spice level of the chillies.
• You can even add a tbsp of grated carrot , saute and grind it as mentioned in the orginal recipe.
• Adding gingelly oil(nallennai) while tempering not only gives flavour,it balances the spice level well.

How to make Kara Chutney

1. In a pan add a drop of oil and roast urad dal,chana dal along with red chillies till golden.Set aside to cool.Now in the same pan add onion,garlic and saute till onion turns transparent.
2. While its getting sauted, soak roasted red chillies in hot water.Once onion turns slightly golden, then add tomato and saute till mushy and raw small leaves completely.
   
3. Cool down and transfer everything to a mixer and grind it along with little water to a chutney consistency.Don’t grind it too smooth.Transfer to a serving bowl.Add required salt and mix well.
   
4. In a tadka pan – heat oil add the ingredients listed under ‘to temper’ let it splutter.Add this tadka to the chutney and mix well.

Serve hot with idli, dosa or uttapam

Tips

• Soaking red chillies is to just get grinded easily.
• Roast the dals just till golden.
• As per the orginal recipe you can add upto 6 red chillies.But for me this itself was spicy.
• Adjust salt according to the spice level of the chillies.
• You can even add a tbsp of grated carrot , saute and grind it as mentioned in the orginal recipe.
• Adding gingelly oil(nallennai) while tempering not only gives flavour,it balances the spice level well.

Instant Kara Chutney

Instant kara chutney, one of the quickest and easiest chutney recipe  I tried recently.If you are a garlic lover like me then this chutney is just for you.This is a no cook version except for heating oil,super easy and tastes so good with hot idlis.

I tried this instant kara chutney and we all soo loved it that I have made it 2 times already on demand.We had it with idli,dosa and as a side dish for curd rice, tastes best!

Ingredients

• 10 nos garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1 and 1/2 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 and 1/2 tbsp gingelly oil
• salt to taste

How to make instant kara chutney

1. Peel the skin from garlic.Crush it.I used my hand mortar and pestle to get this work done.
   
2. Crush it roughly like this.Transfer it to a bowl, add red chilli powder and coriander powder.
   
3. Add jeera powder,salt and turmeric powder.Mix well with a spoon.
   
4. Set aside.Now heat oil, when its smoking hot add it to the boel.
   
5. It will bubble up nicely, set aside for 5mins. Mix well and serve.
   

Serve with hot idlis.

Spicy garlicky kara chutney with soft idlis…bliss!!

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