Mullangi Pachadi | Radish / Mooli Chutney | Side Dish for Dosa

Next in the Chutney Series is another delicious chutney that you can serve for Dosas/ Idlis. I believe this makes a great mix with rice as well, though I haven't tasted it with Rice. When you are really up against for want of ideas to make for serving for Dosas, and want it to be healthy, these vegetable based chutneys really come handy.

The best part of this chutney is the fact that it is diabetic friendly. Forgive me for not showcasing with a Diabetic Dosa, but remember this makes a great side dish for any of those Pesarattu with Moong. Amma got this chutney again from her sister and she served this for Daddy for his Moong dal dosa. They vouched it tasted great. Since I was running short of time and didn't have the Moong dal batter, I had to make do with the regular dosa.

We have always used radish in our Sambar and dry sautes. Athamma again makes a wonderful chutney with another combination, that rests in draft for my cookbook. Anyway meanwhile let me share this simple and quick chutney that you can make for your dosas and never reach out for thos calorie heavy coconut or ground nut chutney. I know I love those two, still I realized this tastes very much like coconut chutney.

You can actually fool somebody to believe this is so!

Ingredients Needed:

Radish, chopped - 1 & 1/2 cup
Onions -  1 medium
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Dry red chilies - 4 -5 mos
Garlic - 3 -4 cloves
Tamarind - 1 small marble size
Oil - 1 tsp

How to make the chutney

Wash and scrap the outer skin of the radish. chop into small pieces.

Heat a kadai with oil, add cumin seeds, allow to splutter. Then add chopped onions, red chilies, garlic saute well.

then add radish and saute till they turn colour.

Remove and allow to cool. Add salt.

Then grind in a mixer to a smooth paste along with tamarind.

Notes:

we made without tamarind and it was good when served with Dosas. If you are serving with rice, you will have to add the tamarind.

This does not have long shelf life but can stay for a day.

Onion Tomato Chutney ~ Side Dish for Dosa

These days with the kids eating the Groundnut chutney, we end up making it not that spicy. And that gets to be a problem for the elders as we like it spicy. There is no question of making two separate batches of the same chutney right. so we end up making a different chutney that is spicy enough for the elders.

This simple chutney with onion and tomato can be used as a spread or side dish. When I had the other two chutneys served for the dosa, I was only too delighted to showcase this along with the rest. If you are for simple and easy chutneys, this is really helpful

Onion Tomato Chutney

Ingredients Needed:



Onions - 1 no
Tomato - 1
Green Chilies - 3
Oil - 2 tsp
Garlic - 2 cloves
Salt to Taste

How to make Onion Tomato chutney

Wash and chop all the vegetables.



Heat a pan with oil, fry all the above one by one, allow to cool

When it is cooled, take all the ingredients in a blender/ mixer along with garlic.

Grind without adding water.

Serve with Dosa

Notes: If you want the chutney a bit more sour, you can add a small piece of tamarind.