A loyal and true accompaniment to most of the South Indian breakfast is, without any doubt – Chutney! Most commonly prepared chutney being the coconut chutney. Having said that, there are n number of options and varieties of chutnies! Chutney is nothing but a smoothly ground vegetable sauce with little amount of spice in it, giving the right aroma, taste complimenting any traditional South Indian breakfast menu! Of the numerous popular chutnies, onion chutney is one of the most commonly prepared one.
Here, lets look into this popular chutney, tailor made to fit into the postpartum recovery meal plan.
You may also be interested in few other postpartum recovery meal plan recipes, which you may find here.
Ingredients:
Onions: 3 (medium sized)
Ginger: Little (Cleaned and chopped)
Garlic : 3 pods (Cleaned and chopped)
Vatepuli / Vatehuli / Monkey jackfruit / Lakucha (In place of tamarind) : 0.5 tsp.
Ghee : Little
Jaggery : Little
For tempering :
Pepper corns : Few
Mustard seeds: 0.5 tsp.
Ghee : Little
Method:
- Wash and clean the onions. Chop the onions roughly and keep aside
- In a pan, add little ghee and add garlic, ginger and onions, and fry until onions turn translucent
- Add jeera to the above and continue frying until jeera spurts
- Remove from heat. Once cooled, transfer the above to a mixer jar. To it, add the Vatepuli / tamarind, jaggery and salt. Grind to a smooth paste
- To the above add ghee tempered pepper corns and mustard seeds
- A perfect accompaniment to dose or rotti!
Note :
- This version of chutney is tailor made to fit in to the postpartum recovery meal plan. This is a ‘without coconut’ version of the conventional onion chutney
- Vatepuli as it is called in my mother tongue Tulu, is also called as Vatehuli in Kannada or Monkey jackfruit in English. It is known for its medicinal benefits. With its unique sweet and sour taste, it serves as a very good replacement to tamarind in the food preparation, thus bringing in the required medicinal benefits. It is traditionally included in the meal preparation to be served for lactating mothers as it facilitates in increasing the milk production. Having said that, if you do not have access to this, you may feel free to use tamarind instead.
Onion Chutney Stories :
Onion chutney, being one of the common accompaniments to our staple breakfast – Dose, is prepared in different ways. Each of the way we prepare it, the chutney tastes differently good. This variation to the onion chutney is prepared keeping in mind the postpartum recovery meal plan. I love it when my husband prepares it. Every time he prepares it, I compliment him and he being humble , simply says – its your recipe 🙂 But trust me, he adds in the magical ingredient to the dishes he prepares, which enhances the taste of the dish. And that’s – love!
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