Aayi makes two kinds of chutneys. One is hinga chutney and the other is alle chutney (Ofcourse she makes other chutneys also, but these two look similar). I never used to bother about which should go with what dish. But recently I am becoming specific about traditional food. So I was getting confused about these two chutneys. Yesterday while talking to Aayi, she gave me a simple answer, “make ginger chutney with anything prepared with urad daal, like dosa, idli etc and make hinga chutney with any other food like bhakri, buns etc”. Isn’t that a very clear and simple answer???. Now my basics are clear!!!.
Ingredients: Coconut 1 cup Green chillies 4 Asafoetida(hingu) a pinch Tamarind 1/2 tea spn Salt
Method: Grind all the ingredients with little water.
Serves : 5 Preparation time : 10min
I was thinking about blogging about this typical konkani style Buns from many days. But recently one of my visitor, Seema, requested for this recipe. So I thought of blogging about it without any further delay.’Buns’ is a very famous Konkani dish usually prepared with pumpkin or ripe bananas. Usually when we get the big pumpkins at home, a veriety of dishes are prepared using them. It will be cut into big pieces and some of the pieces go to neighbours and relatives who stay in nearby places. The remaining pieces are dried under the sun and kept for a few days.
Since I love pumpkins, my parents keep it till I go home for some vacations and then cut it and the usual procedure I explained just now goes on!!. Isn’t it so sweet…. Ahh…I am missing my parents now…Well, I think I am becoming too emotional!!.
Ingredients: Pumpkin pieces or ripe banana pieces 1 cup Wheat flour 2 cups Jaggery or Sugar 3/4th cup Oil Salt
Method: Cook pumpkin pieces (ripe bananas are directly used without cooking). Grind pumpkin/bananas, Jaggery(or sugar) to a smooth paste(preferrably dont use water). Add wheat flour and salt to the paste and kneed the dough(Puri dough consistency). Preferrably keep the dough overnight. Make puris(a bit thicker than normal puri) and deep fry in oil. Serve hot with chutney .
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 20min
