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Tomato Oambal Or Tomato Chutney

Tomato chutney or oambal from Tripura cuisine. A sweet and slightly hot delicious chutney. You can enjoy it with any meal or snacks. Recipe is very simple to make. You don’t need much ingredients to make this chutney.
I have served it with lentil or dal cutlets.

Tripura is one of the North Eastern seven sisters states in India.

Tripuri cuisine is the type of food served in Tripura (situated in northeast India). The Tripuris are essentially nonvegetarians and hence the main courses are mainly prepared using meat, but with the addition of vegetables. Traditional Tripuri cuisine is known as Mui Borok. Tripuri food has a key ingredient called Berma (also called Shidal in Bengali), which is a small, oil-pasted and dry fermented fish. The foods are sometimes considered to be healthy as they are usually prepared without oil.
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You may like some more chutney recipes on this blog.

1. Ginger chutney

2. Mango sesame chutney

3. Date raisin jaggery chutney with mango bar

4. Waterchestnut chutney

5. Onion tomato chutney or dip

6. Mango raisin chutney

7. Peanut chutney or dip

This month in Shhhhh cooking Secretly
facebook group we are sharing different dishes from Tripura cuisine.
Shhh Cooking Secretly a group started by Priya of Priya’s Versatile Recipes, is where every month food bloggers are paired up and give each other 2 secret ingredients to cook with according to the theme chosen.
This month my partner is lovely Sasmita who blog at First Timer Cook.
I love her delicious, healthy and easy to make recipes.
Visit her space for different types of healthy and mouthwatering recipes. I have recently bookmarked her No oil lentil and peas soup to try.
Sasmita gave me mustard seeds and jaggery as secret ingredients. And I gave her pepper and tofu. She made delicious Kasoi Bwtwi with these ingredients. Check out the recipe on her blog.

This chutney is very easy to make. You need only jaggery, salt, raisins and lemon juice with mustard and chilli tempering. Simple yet tongue tickling chutney to pair with any dish. I love this tomato chutney, its similar to Bengali tomato chutney.

Recipe

Tomato – 4 medium, chopped

Dry red chilli – 3 – 4

Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Salt to taste

Jaggery powder – 2 tablespoon

Raisin – 2 tablespoon

Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Water – 1/4 cup

Method

1. Heat oil in a pan.

2. Add mustard seeds and dry red chilli.
When the seeds starts to splutter and chopped tomatoes and salt.

3. Saute till tomatoes becomes mushy.

4. Now add jaggery, raisins and water.
Cook till chutney or oambal becomes thick. Remove from heat.

5. Add lemon juice and mix well.
Serve with snacks or any meal.

Notes
1. Recipe adopted from here.
2.You can break the red chillies or use 2 – 3 more chilli to make the chutney hot.

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Ginger Chutney Or Allam Pachadi

Ginger chutney or allam pachadi.
A very aromatic and lip-smacking chutney. Ginger, tamarind, coconut, peanut, jaggery and chilli made this chutney tongue tickling.

This chutney is from Andhra cuisine. Allam means ginger. In authentic recipe coconut and peanut not usually used. But I love the nutty taste of dry roasted peanut and the sweetness and flavour of fresh coconut in chutney. So I have used both. You can use 1/2 to 1/4 teaspoon coriander seeds with chana dal, udad dal and cumin if you like the flavour. I didn’t.

You may like some more chutney recipes on this blog.
1. Mango sesame chutney

2. Raisin jaggery chutney with mango bar

3. Waterchestnut or singhara chutney

4. Onion tomato chutney or dip

5. Mango raisin chutney

6. Peanut chutney or dip

Sending this post to Facebook group Recipe Swap Challenge Initiated by Jolly
And Vidya.
We have to recreate a recipe from a fellow blogger’s blog.
This month my partner is Sandhya Ramakrishnan who blog at My Cooking Journey.
I love this ginger chutney on her blog. I have made little changes according to my taste.

Chutney is very easy to make. You can skip tempering at the end because chutney is also delicious without tempering. I have used coconut and peanut according to my taste. You can omit these if you want or if you don’t have these. I have used readymade tamarind paste but if you don’t have paste, soak 1 tablespoon tamarind in 1/4 cup warm water and strain the pulp when cool.

Recipe

Ginger – 1/4 cup, peeled and chopped in small pieces

Chana dal or Bengal gram – 1 tablespoon

Used dal or split black gram – 1 teaspoon

Fresh coconut – 2 tablespoon, chopped in small pieces, optional

Peanut – 2 tablespoon

Cumin seed – 1/2 teaspoon

Dry red chilli – 1 – 2 or to taste

Methi or fenugreek seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Jaggery powder – 1 tablespoon

Salt to taste

Tamarind paste – 2 tablespoon

Cumin powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1/4 teaspoon

Oil – 2 teaspoon

Water – 4 tablespoon

For tempering

Mustard seeds – 1/4 teaspoon

Curry leaves – 8 – 10

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Method

1. Dry roast the peanut. Let it cool down, peel and keep aside.

2. Heat 2 teaspoon oil in a pan.
Add chana dal, udad dal, dry red chilli, cumin seeds and methi or fenugreek seeds.

3. Fry until lentils become brown.
Add ginger pieces, coconut pieces and dry roasted and peeled peanut.

4. Mix and immediatly switch off the heat. Don’t fry the ginger too much, overcooking may be make the ginger bitter.

5. Let the mixture cool down completely.

6. Grind the mixture with tamarind paste, salt, cumin powder, coriander powder, jaggery and water. Don’t add too much water. Chutney should be thick consistency.

7. Take out the chutney in a bowl. Taste and adjust salt, jaggery and tamarind if required.

8. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a small pan.Add 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds or rai and curry leaves. You can also add 1 dry red chilli. My chutney is already hot with 2 red chilli in the ground mixture so I didn’t.

8. When the seeds starts to splutter add the tempering in the chutney.
Serve with idli, dosa or serve as dip with any snack.

Notes

1. Use chilli according to your spice tolerance. If you want mildly spicy chutney, use only one red chilli.

2. Lemon juice or dry mango powder can be used instead of tamarind.

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Gur Aam Or Instant Sweet Mango Pickle

Gur aam or instant sweet mango pickle or chutney.
A sweet tangy and spicy mango pickle. You can call it khatta mitha achar. My mother’s recipe and my most favourite pickle. You need only raw mango, equal quantity jaggery, panch phoran or Bengali five spices, chilli powder and little oil. And the taste is really lip-smacking.

This gur aam or instant mango pickle is flavoured with panch phoran or Bengali five spices. Panch phoran consists of fenugreek seeds or methi, Nigella seed or kalaunji, cumin seed or jeera, mustard seed or sarso and fennel seed or sounf.

And its sweetened with cane jaggery. We All know that jaggery has numerous health benefits.
It acts as a detox, as it helps cleanse the liver by flushing out nasty toxins from the body. Jaggery is loaded with antioxidants and minerals like zinc and selenium, which help prevent free-radicals (responsible for early ageing). It helps boost resistance against infections, hence building stronger immunity.
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This week’s our 196 #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is its pickle time suggested by Aruna Saraschandra who blog at Vasus veg kitchen do visit her space for delicious vegetarian recipes.

When Aruna suggested the theme I don’t have any idea what to share because my family is not pickle fan. So I make pickles very rarely. Suddenly I remember my Maa’s gur aam and the lip-smacking taste. I used to make it every year. Because its my most favourite pickle. Do try and enjoy the finger licking taste.

Recipe

1 cup – 250 ml

Raw mango – 500 gram

Salt – 1/2 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Red chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Powdered or grated jaggery – 2 & 1/4 cup

Panch phoran – 1 teaspoon +1 teaspoon

Mustard oil – 1 tablespoon

Water – 1/4 cup

Method

1. Rinse the mangoes Well.

2. Peel and chop lengthwise. Make lengthwise 4 pieces.

3. Marinate with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder.

4. Spread the mangoes on a large plate. Keep under sunlight for 3 – 4 hours.

5. Dry roast 1 teaspoon panch phoran or Bengali five spices till aromatic. Seeds shouldn’t be burnt. You can get panch phoran in any super market but if you don’t get it then you can make it at home. See notes to make panch phoran.

6. Let the roasted panch phoran cool down and grind in grinder or mortar pestle. Keep it aside.

7. Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan. Add 1 teaspoon panch phoran or Bengali five spices and let them splutter.

8. Add mango slices and red chilli powder. Fry for 3 – 4 minutes.

9. Now add water and jaggery powder or grated jaggery. Mix well.

10. Reduce the heat. Cook on simmer for 20 minutes or till the mangoes becomes soft. Keep stirring to avoid sticking to bottom of the pan.

11. Add dry roasted and ground panch phoran and mix well. Remove from heat and let it cool down. Jaggery syrup will be thickened when cool.

12. Store in clean and dry jar for later use. But taste before storing. Yummy isn’t it 😊
Enjoy the spicy tangy and sweet gur aam or instant sweet mango pickle.

Note
For panch phoran or Bengali five spices mix 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, 1 teaspoon Nigella seeds, 1 teaspoon mustard seeds, 1teaspoon fennel seeds and 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds. Mix and use as require.

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Mango Sesame Chutney

Mango sesame chutney.
A lip-smacking delicious chutney from Andhra Pradesh cuisine.
This chutney is very easy to make. Just grind all the ingredients and add the tempering. You will love with nutty flavour of sesame. You can use it as a dip with any snack.

Tanginess of raw mango and the taste and flavour of chillies, curry leaves and sesame seeds made the chutney lip-smacking.

For some more chutney recipes click on the name below.

Date raisin jaggery chutney with mango bar

Water chestnut or singhara chutney

Onion tomato chutney or dip

Peanut chutney or dip

Mango raisin chutney

For recipe swap challenge I was searching for recipes on the blog of Aruna Panangipally. Who blog at aahaaramonline.com
I was paired with her. I made her falafel but I have also bookmarked this mango sesame chutney. And made it in small quantity. Just loved it. So want to share it for my readers. You can check out the original recipe from Aruna’s blog.

You can make it double if you want. But I like to make my chutney or dip in small quantity and make every time fresh. You can add some more chillies if you want your chutney spicy and hot.

Recipe

Raw Mango – 1/2 cup, peeled and chopped

Sesame seeds or til – 2 tablespoon

Turmeric – a pinch

Green chilli – 2 – 3

Salt to taste

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Dry red chilli – 1

Curry leaves – 4

Method

1. In a grinder grind chopped mango, sesame seeds, green chilli with turmeric and salt.

2. Add water to make thick paste.
When the mixture becomes smooth take out in a bowl. Taste and adjust the seasoning.

3. For tempering heat oil in a small pan.

4. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.

5. Add dry red chilli and curry leaves. Fry for few seconds.

6. Add the tempering to the chutney. Mix well.

7. Your mango sesame chutney is ready. Serve with idli, dosa or any snack.

Note

Add chilli according to your taste. If you like your chutney hot use more chilli.

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Date Raisin Jaggery Chutney With Aam Papad/Amsotto Or Mango Bar

Date raisin jaggery chutney with aam papad/amsotto or mango bar.
Chutney taste tangy, spicy, sweet in one word super yummy.
Serve it with lunch or dinner, aroma of this chutney definitely make you hungry.
Try and enjoy the heavenly taste.

You can get some more different chutney recipes here.

Peanut chutney

Mango raisin chutney

Onion tomato chutney

Water chestnut chutney

I have used date or khajur, raisins, dried mango sticks, jaggery or gur, aam papad or mango bar, chilli powder, black salt and roasted mixed spice powder or bhaja moshla in it.
Roasted mixed spice powder makes the chutney spicy and delicious.

Recipe

Date or khajur – 1/2 cup, chopped in thin slices

Raisins – 2 tablespoon

Dried mango sticks – 1/4 cup

Jaggery or gur – 1/2 cup, powdered or grated

Aam papad or mango bar – 1/2 cup, cut into 1/2 inch cubes

Dry roasted powdered spices – 1 & 1/2 teaspoon

Black salt – 1/2 teaspoon

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 teaspoon

Water – 1 cup

Method

Clean and soak the raisins and dried mango sticks in water.
Cut the dried mango sticks into 1″ pieces.

Heat jaggery with 1 cup water. When it starts to boil simmer the flame.

Add chopped dates, aam papad or mango bar, dried mango sticks, black salt and red chilli powder. Mix well and cook on low flame.

Cook till the mixture becomes thick and dried mango sticks and dates becomes tender. Stir occasionally.

Mixture should be thick don’t dried up completely.
Add 1 & 1/2 teaspoon dry roasted spice powder or bhaja moshla.
Get the roasted spice powder recipe here

Mix well and switch off the flame.
Taste and adjust the seasoning.

Chutney is ready. Let it cool down.
Enjoy the spicy tangy delicious chutney with your lunch or dinner. Or serve it with stuffed paratha in breakfast.

Notes

1. Kashmiri red chilli powder is optional. Added it for colour. You can omit it if you want.

2. You can use cashew nuts in the chutney with raisins if you like.

3. If you want your chutney less spicy use 1 teaspoon dry roasted spice powder instead of 1 & 1/2 teaspoon.

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Water Chestnut Or Singhara Chutney Or Dip

Water chestnut or singhara chutney or dip.

A delicious tangy chutney. First time tried with singhara or water chestnut and very happy with the taste. Its a hit in my family.

Water chestnut is full of vitamins and minerals. Not only that, nutrients rich water chestnut is cholesterol free.

When looking for cholesterol-free and fat-free foods to add to your meal plans, water chestnuts fill the bill. You can lower your risk for heart disease and stroke by maintaining your blood cholesterol level, and adding water chestnuts to your meals can help you do this. Water chestnuts’ zero fat content may help you prevent weight gain when adding them to your diet.

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I have already shared few more chutney or dip recipe

O nion tomato chutney

Mango raisin chutney

Peanut chutney or dip

A big thank to Rohit Srivastava for the idea. We were talking about water chestnut. Maximum people love boiled water chestnut with spicy dhania or cilantro chutney.

So here is a mix match. Water chestnut with cilantro, mint, tomato, lemon juice and and some spices.

You can enjoy this spicy tangy chutney with your food or make it a sandwich spread.

Recipe

Singhara – 10 – 12

Chopped cilantro or coriander leaves – 1 cup

Mint leaves – 1/2 cup

Tomato – 1, chopped

Garlic – 3 – 4 cloves

Ginger – 1/2 inch piece

Green chilli – 2 – 3, chopped

Salt to taste

Chaat masala powder – 1 teaspoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Lemon juice – 2 tablespoon or to taste

Method

Peel and chop the water chestnut or singhara.

Clean and rinse mint leaves and cilantro.

Grind water chestnut, cilantro, mint leaves, tomato, garlic, ginger and green chilli.

Add salt, cumin powder, chaat masala powder and lemon juice. Blend the mixture again.

Taste and adjust the seasoning. Add more salt and lemon juice if require.

Enjoy with your snacks or use it as a sandwich spread.

Serve immediately or keep in refrigerator for later use. You can keep in refrigerator for 7-8 days.
Note –

Add green chilli according to your taste.

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Onion Tomato Chutney Or Dip

Onion tomato chutney or dip.

A lip-smacking and spicy savoury chutney or dip. Best accompany for your snacks, or use it as a sandwich spread.

Its my first post for Shhhh Cooking Secretly Facebook group and the theme is ‘Chutneys’.

In this group all the participating bloggers were challenged to make a dish with the use of two secret ingredients their partner assigns them with.

This week’s theme is Chutneys.

This is my first challenge I have been paired with Avin S Kohli, a very talented blogger who writes at theyellowdaal.com

A big thank to Avin for giving me these two ingredients. Chutney becomes super hit in my family.

Best accompany with your snacks. I have used it as sandwich spread too. This finger licking chutney or dip made my sandwiches superbly delicious.

Recipe

Tomato – 4 medium chopped

Onion – 1 sliced

Cilantro – 1 cup chopped

Garlic – 3 – 4 cloves chopped

Ginger – 1/2 inch piece chopped

Cashew nut – 2 heaped tablespoon

Green chilli – 2 – 3 or to taste

Salt to taste

Lemon juice – 2 tablespoon

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Method

Heat oil in a pan. Add sliced onion and chopped green chilli. Fry till onion becomes translucent. Add garlic and ginger. Fry until the onion becomes brown.

Now add the tomatoes, cashew nuts, chopped cilantro, salt and cumin powder.

Cook till the tomatoes becomes mushy.

Switch off the flame. If you want your chutney hot you can add 1-2 dry red chilli in the oil with onion.

Let the mixture cool down.

Mix lemon juice and grind into smooth paste.

Taste and adjust salt and lemon juice if required.

Pour the chutney in a bowl or jar.

Serve with any snacks or use as a sandwich spread.

I have used it in my burger too. It will make your sandwiches or burger superbly delicious.

Enjoy…….
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Mango Raisin Chutney

Mango raisin chutney.

Mango season is about to over. But still raw mangoes are easily available in the market.

Sweet and tangy mango chutney is a very common dish in summer. There are many variations in mango chutney recipes. I am sharing an easy and very common recipe today.

In Bengali households aamer chutney or mango chutney or aamer ombol is a must dish in Bengali meals.

Mango chutney is thick and the taste is tongue tickling. And ombol is very light in consistency and runny, similar to soup. With this same recipe you can make both, just adjust the sugar and salt. And add more water to make a thin soup like consistency for aamer ombol.

Normally we make it without raisins. But I love raisins in chutney. Whether it is mango or tomatoes. But you can omit raisins if you like.

Recipe

Raw mango – 250 gram

Sugar – 1/2 cup

Salt – 1/2 teaspoon or to taste

Raisins – 2 tablespoon

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Dry red chilli – 1

Roasted cumin powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Oil – 1 tablespoon

Water – 1 cup

Method

Peel and chop the raw mangoes. Wash, drain and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds. When the seeds starts to crackle add the dry red chilli. Stir and add the chopped mangoes.

Add salt and turmeric. Saute for 1- 2 minutes. Add raisins and water.

Cover and cook until the mangoes becomes soft.

Now add the sugar. Cook until the sugar dissolved and chutney becomes thick. You can add little red chilli powder too. I didn’t.

Taste and adjust the sugar and salt if require.

Remove from heat. Add roasted cumin powder. Mix well. I have used 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder but if you like you can add 1 teaspoon.
Keep in refrigerator and serve in meal times.
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Peanut Chutney Or Dip

I promised to post the recipe of peanut chutney or dip.

Peanuts are good for heart and carry almost all the qualities of other popular kernels like pistachio, almonds etc.

Peanuts are good source of vitamins. These are essential for optimum health and wellness. So we should try to include it in our everyday meal.

If you like the taste of peanut try this chutney or dip. You will love the taste.

I used green chilli but you can use dry red chilli too for the colour.
You can add little tamarind to make the chutney more tangy.

Recipe

Peanut – 2 tablespoon

Tomato – 2 large chopped

Green chilli – 2-3 chopped

Garlic – 3-4 pod chopped, you can add more if you like the garlicky taste.

Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon

Curry leaves – 1 teaspoon chopped

Dry red chilli – 1 for garnishing

Method

Dry roast the peanuts, remove the skin, ground and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Fry 1 dry red chilli and keep aside for garnishing.

Add mustard seeds and let them splutter.

Now add garlic fry until it becomes light brown. Add curry leaves then green chilli and chopped tomatoes.

Stir and add salt, cumin powder. Stir well. When the tomatoes becomes soft switch off the flame.

Let it cool. Grind them. Add ground peanuts and juice of 1 lemon, grind again.

Taste the seasoning and adjust.
Pour in a glass bowl garnish with fried red chilli.

Serve with steamed idli, dosa, cutlets, paratha or any other dishes.