Coconut Thuvaiyal

Ingredients:

Scraped coconut - 3/4 cup
Black Urad dal - 4 tablespoon
Tamarind - 3/4 of a small lemon size
Red chili - 10
Salt - as needed

Procedure:

• Roast urad dal till it gets brown and set aside.
• Add red chili and roast for a while and set aside.
• Add coconut and roast till it gets light brown.
• Take all these items in a mixer jar; add salt and soaked tamarind and grind to a coarse paste adding little water.

Note:

• If you need it little dry, do not add water.
• To enrich the taste, add onion vadagam that is used for seasoning towards the end of the grinding process.
• If ammi is used for grinding, the thuvaiyal tastes very good.

Coconut, Raw Mango Chutney

Ingredients:

Raw mango - 1 (Medium size)
Scraped coconut - 4 tablespoon
Groundnut - 3 tablespoon
Green chilli - 4
Red chilli - 1
Jeera powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - as needed

Procedure:

• Peel the skin of the mango and cut it into small cubes.
• Roast the groundnut and puff the skin off.
• Add mango, coconut, groundnut, green chilli, red chilli, jeera powder, salt, little water and grind well to make a fine paste.

Learnt from: Samaiyal Samaiyal. Vijay TV