Tomato Chutney

The Tomato Chutney I am about to share with you is versatile to be paired with sandwich as well as Dosa. I have experimented with few traditional tomato chutney recipes to come up with this one. It is simple and tasty.

Ingredients:
1. Tomato- 2 ripe medium
2. Onion - 1/4 medium size
3. Garlic - 3/4 Cloves
4. Muster Seeds - 1 TSP
5. Chili Flakes- 2 TSP or 2/3 whole red dry chili
6. Oil - 2 TSP (Muster Seed/ Vegetable/ Corn/ Saffola/ Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
7. Salt - 2 TSP

Method:
1. Heat the thick bottom pan, add oil, muster seeds and red chili flakes.

2, Once the seeds start to sputter, add roughly chopped onion and garlic. I have used ed onion. You can substitute for white or yellow or even pearl onions.

3. Let the onion and garlic cook for 3-4 min and change into golden brown color. By this time, aroma of spices, onion and garlic will be all over the kitchen. Now add roughly chopped tomatoes.

4. Mix well and cover for 4-5 min; until tomatoes are cooked well and juices are out. 

5. Let the mixture cool down completely. Blend it into smooth texture. I used Vitamix 6300 on ‘smoothie’ settings and let it blend through the cycle.

6. The mixture is runny. If you like it to be thick you can pour the mixture back to the thick bottom pan and cook for another 3-4 min for thicker chutney by adding salt. I prefer runny chutney, so I pour the chutney into serving bowl and mix in salt. If you want the chutney to be more spicy, you can add red chili powder as well at this point.